On Wednesday 19 September 2007 20:59:03 David Miller wrote: > 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. John, please also note that the following patch is not merged, yet. http://bu3sch.de/patches/wireless-dev/20070915-1740/patches/006-zd-fix-tx-status.patch Without it ratecontrol does not work. It does neither scale the rate up nor down. This patch fixes both. I think it got lost in a (really unrelated to the actual bug) discussion about whether it's required or not to report status in mac80211 drivers. (It turned out that it _is_ required). -- Greetings Michael. - 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
