Hi, Any change of getting driver merged in 2.6.25? - Jussi On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 02:13 +0200, Jussi Kivilinna wrote: > Hello, > > This is second try on wireless RNDIS patchset started by Bjorge Dijkstra. Since > Bjorge has disappeared, I claim maintainership of rndis_wext and this patchset > until he returns. > > This patchset adds support for various 802.11 USB devices based on Broadcom > 4320 chip. Chip uses RNDIS to communicate with the host, so module depend > heavily on rndis_host/cdc_ether/usbnet and needs some changes on these > modules in order to work. > > Patches 1-6 are from first patchset: > 1. Fix sparse warning: returning void valued expression > 2. [cdc_ether] Hardwire CDC descriptors when missing > 3. [rndis_host] Use 1KB buffer in rndis_unbind > 4. [rndis_host] Halt device if rndis_bind fails > 5. [rndis_host] Fix rndis packet filter flags > 6. [usbnet] Use wlan device name for RNDIS wireless devices > > Of these 1, 3 and 4 are not required for this version of rndis_wext to work. > > Actual wireless part is changed from extension on rndis_host to separate > driver. Different devices are detected by device specific USB vendor/product > IDs as the way done with Windows drivers instead of detecting RNDIS media type > like in first patchset. > > New patches 7-14: > 7. [rndis_host] Split up rndis_host.c > 8. [rndis_host] export functions > 9. [usbnet] add driver_priv pointer to 'struct usbnet' > 10. [rndis_host] Add rndis_early_init function pointer to 'struct rndis_data'. > 11. [rndis_host] Add rndis_link_change function pointer to 'struct rndis_data'. > 12. Move usbnet.h and rndis_host.h to include/linux/usb > 13. [rndis_host] blacklist known wireless RNDIS devices > 14. Add new driver 'rndis_wext' for wireless RNDIS devices. > > Patches should be applied in order, series apply cleanly to 2.6.24-rc8. > > - Jussi Kivilinna > > - > 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 > - 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
