On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:48 AM, Luis Correia <luis.f.correia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi! > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 07:03, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 28.10.2008 01:49, Greg KH wrote: >>> >>> 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. >> >> Does it really make sense to include a driver when a different one for >> mainline inclusion is being actively developed? It might give some >> developers the impression that it's worth spending time improving the >> rtl2860/2870 drivers -- which might be wasted time in the end. > > Is it just me or you are suggesting we use the Ralink supplied driver, > with its own wireless stack, rather then work with the rt2x00 team? > > Do we really want that again (several wireless stacks)? Staging means temporary, a place for you to stash crap, which ultimately and hopefully will unbecome crap and some sort of butterfly will come out. Now I got poetic. Luis -- 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
