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Re: at76_usb - fourth submission attempt

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On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 20:17 +0200, Jiri Benc wrote:

> Could you send a direct pointer to the patch? And make a patch that
> creates those at76_usb* files in the correct dir by itself? That will
> ease the review a lot.

http://80211libre.org/at76/at76_usb_try4.patch

Individual files are in http://80211libre.org/at76/

> > The biggest change that has not been done is conversion to mac80211.  I
> > believe it's possible, but I don't expect it to happen overnight.  Until
> > then, at76_usb uses its own implementation of 802.11 protocol.
> 
> Unfortunately, that prevents being accepted to vanilla.
> 
> I'd suggest to convert the driver to mac80211 and submit it then;
> otherwise people will tend to look at the code saying "NAK, it contains
> its own home grown 802.11 stack" only and not to review the driver in
> depth.

Well, that make sense.  Helpers are welcome :)

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

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