On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Holger Schurig wrote:
The module loads (does not bail out in the interrupt handler)
and creates the devices:
...
It is not yet fully working, however. The card does not seem
to react on the scanning/set_channel commands:
This mailing list is more for the 838x chips, but we don't have a
problem with occassional 833x e-mail traffic here.
However, my advice is the following: As long as the driver's home
is on some "obscure" tar files, it will always suffer from
bitrot and not-so-much contribution by third partis. So aim to
bring the driver into the linux kernel. Talk with John W.
Linville on the linux-wireless mailing list about this.
http://linuxwireless.org should give you pointers. For drivers,
sometimes Linux accepts even not-so-good-code, when there is a
chance that the beast get's better via re-factoring over time.
That would also be my preferred way, as this code has taken the route
through a few people already (Luc Saillard, Andrea Merello and David
Woodhouse).
When if_cs.c went into the in-kernel-libertas driver, a few
people that I never heard of found errors or sent bugfixes.
Second advice: I think the BSD people (FreeBSD possible) have a
m8k driver in their kernel tree. As I have heard, this beast
actually works. So either look there for inspiration or try
*BSD, pepper the code with debug printks and try to understand
the differences between their code and the current linux code.
Yes, that is the malo driver, as far as I know. The mrv8k(ng) from
http://david.woodhou.se/mrv.tar.gz is using the hardware constants and
programming methods from that malo driver as stated in the mrv8.c.
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