On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 02:39:07PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 20:17 +0200, Jiri Benc wrote: > > > 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 :) I have added this to the 'at76' branch of wireless-dev, and attempted to directly recruit some help to get this driver ported to mac80211. I think that is a requirement for merging upstream, but at least being in wireless-dev and -mm will get you some visibility, testing, feedback, etc... Thanks! John -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
