>> > So, on my quest to suck up every out-of-tree driver and get it into the >> > main kernel tree (drivers/staging/ to start with), I've been pointed at >> > the rtl2860 driver. >> >> in that case make sure you include rt2870 on your list as well then. ;) > > Do you have a pointer to it? http://www.ralinktech.com.tw/data/drivers/2008_0925_RT2870_Linux_STA_v1.4.0.0.tar.bz2 But as mentioned the rt2800usb is underway. >> > Does anyone know of a "cleaned up" version of this driver that is >> > newer/better than the one on ralink's web site? I found the >> > 2008_0918_RT2860_Linux_STA_v1.8.0.0.tar.bz2 version there, and will >> > start with that if no one else has yet. >> >> rt2800pci/rt2800usb development is in progress in the rt2x00.git >> experimental branch: >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/ivd/rt2x00.git;a=shortlog;h=experimental >> >> The current status is that rt2800usb has working RX with some warnings >> regarding the >> RX signal, and a non functional TX. rt2800pci isn't complete yet. >> >> So far progress has been very slow because of lack of time, so any help with the >> development of the drivers is welcome. > > Is this a port of the tarball driver to the in-kernel wireless stack, or > starting over from scratch? Starting from scratch, well actually hooking it into the rt2x00lib library, so only the real register initializations are being copied. ;) > As it's not really working, do you mind if I just dump the tarball > driver into the staging tree for users to use now (hint, they already > are, the distros are shipping that driver as a kernel module package), > and then when this "real" driver is up and working properly, we can drop > the staging version? No objections, but who is going to provide support for them and maintain them to make sure they compile? I am already stretched in time, and I have absolutely no interest in maintaining or supporting those old drivers. I understood there were quite a lot of problems with the drivers, so putting them in an "official" tree might lead to a large series of support requests. Ivo -- 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
