From: "John W. Linville" <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:10:05 -0400 > This patch adds z1211 (previously known as zd1211rw-mac80211), > a driver for Zydas ZD1211 hardware. This driver has proven very > robust -- Fedora 7 uses this driver and I don't think I have any open > bugzillas for it. Either the driver works well, or no one as using > it...given the common availability of the hardware, I have to presume > the former. :-) > > This driver is mostly a port of zd1211rw to the mac80211 > infrastructure. In fact, most zd1211rw patches have been mirrored > directly to this driver for some time. I considered merely updating > the existing driver with this code, but I think it is more prudent to > include this as a separate driver just to avoid confusion. There is > some symbol clash between the two drivers, so I add a Kconfig hack > to ensure that only one or the other is built-in or that this one is > built as a module. > > The maintainers have identified some (IMHO minor) issues with the > mac80211 port of this driver. Some of them are summarized here: > > http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/zd1211rw/mac80211Issues > > Still, I think we would be better-off having this driver upstream. Agreed, merged into net-2.6.24, thanks John. - 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
