On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 5:59 AM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 04:35:11PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez >> <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:26:55PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:50:45PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: >> >> > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 07:04:17PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> >> > > We would like to see our Atheros 802.11n USB Linux driver upstream >> >> > > however we need help with this so we are releasing our Atheros 11n USB >> >> > > Otus Linux driver under the ISC to the community. The goal is to work >> >> > > with the community to help move this forward upstream. We are hoping >> >> > > for community help and leadership on this (*cough*). >> >> > >> >> > Yeah! >> >> > >> >> > I'll grab this and put it in drivers/staging/ so it gets some users and >> >> > more developers to help out with it. >> >> >> >> Ok, it seems to need some basic work to merely build properly on >> >> "modern" kernel versions. >> > >> > Yeah, it works up to 2.6.24. >> >> This is now fixed on the master branch, also the branch "for-upstream" >> does a lot of cleanup I thought you may like before stuffing it into >> staging like removing all KERNEL_VERSION checks, all wireless >> extensions checks, some compile warnings, removal of compat, dos2unix, >> use utf-8, etc. Unfortunately this still requires a specific version >> of wpa_supplicant but it seems it works. Not sure what bars you have >> for staging at this point. > > Pretty much the only "bar" is "it compiles" :) > >> Will you take this in, and expect patches for fixing it to use >> standard wext and also report standard wireless statistic (yeap, this >> is not there yet either). > > Yes, I can do that. > >> Joey is one user which reported the driver working now with the >> compile fixes for newer kernels for 2.6.28-rc2 using the specific >> version of wpa_supplicant for it. >> >> Joey can you test the for-upstream branch on otus git? > > If someone can tell me what device this is for, I can try to go buy it > so that I can verify changes I make don't drasticly break things. > I've tested the TL-WN821N (it's the cheapest N USB I think) with a generic 802.11g router (WPA enabled) on 2.6.24.7, 2.6.27.4 and 2.6.28-rc2. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833704032 I'll test the for-upstream branch soon. Joey -- 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
