Hi Greg, > > > In my quest to suck drivers into drivers/staging/ I noticed that the > > > at76_usb driver is being shipped by both Fedora and Ubuntu in their > > > kernels. > > > > Yes, that's the original at76_usb driver which has it's own 802.11 > > stack. Pavel Rosking was the maintainer of that driver. Based on the > > feedback in linux-wireless I then started porting the driver to use > > mac80211. > > > > (Maybe I should have renamed the port to something else than at76_usb > > because having two different drivers with the same name creates > > confusion.) > > > > > So I was wondering what the status of this driver is, and if I > > > could/should add it to drivers/staging/? > > > > The original at76_usb is working quite well, but it's unacceptable for > > the mainline because we cannot have two 802.11 stacks in kernel. > > I understand this, but for the issue of the drivers/staging/ tree, it's > ok for us to have as many 802.11 stacks in the kernel as we can cram in > there :) did you start working for Ubuntu now ;) Regards Marcel -- 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
