Hi, [Re-added Cc's, hope you hadn't dropped them on purpose. Sorry for spamming if they were trimmed deliberately.] On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 07:24:10PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > Forest Bond wrote: > > > I'm getting the sense that there is not a lot of developer interest in these > > drivers. Is there anything I can do to aid in getting these drivers into the > > kernel? > > > > I would be willing to send patches, however, my experience with kernel hacking > > is limited and I don't have a lot of time available to contribute. With a > > little direction, though, I might be able to get somewhere. > > > > Any input would be appreciated. > > You might be able to get it added to the drivers/staging directory - that is > where the c r a p drivers that have no chance of making it to mainline are put. > > To see what is wrong with that driver, compare its coding style to that of any > driver in the drivers/net/wireless directory tree. > > A second problem is that no new drivers that implement a software-based MAC > layer are likely to be accepted - this driver would have to be modified to use > mac80211. Great, this is enough to get started, at least. I assume that the quality bar is low for code in drivers/staging. Low quality work is a trademark of mine, so I should be able to tackle this. ;) Is there any reason I ought to think that it would be easier to get this accepted in linux-staging than drivers/staging? I'll admit that I feel better about the layout of drivers/staging than I do about the quilt stuff in linux-staging. Thanks, Forest -- Forest Bond http://www.alittletooquiet.net http://www.pytagsfs.org
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