On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 08:55:23PM -0400, Forest Bond wrote: > 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. linux-staging is dead and gone and entirely contained within drivers/staging/ now, so there is no such choice :) thanks, greg k-h -- 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
