On Friday 17 July 2009, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Stefan Bader<stefan.bader@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Ivo Van Doorn wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez<mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Stefan Bader<stefan.bader@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> At least this seems to be material for 3 or 4 patches > >>>> - adapt the rfkill stuff > >>>> - some documentation update > >>>> - add the new pci version of the 2800 (with that rt2x00soc lib > >>>> which might be another patch) > >>>> - and some fixes... > >>> > >>> Not only that but this driver is not yet merged upstream, there should > >>> be a good reason for that. > >>> > >>> Ivo, what's the status on rt2800pci? Some users have been asking about > >>> it. > >> > >> The status is that it is not functioning correctly, during boot it > >> will print out > >> tons of errors about the device not being ready, and afterward it cannot > >> scan, > >> connect or do anything useful. > >> > >> And I think those problems can be considered enough reasons for not > >> merging > >> the driver upstream yet. ;) > >> > >> Ivo > > > > I would say so. :) Assuming there is a bit of truth in those claims of that > > tarball working better than the current kernel code, we might take away all > > the new driver bloat and see what remains (which might be the part Ivo has > > anyways in wireless testing...) > > Its not part of wireless-testing. Well any patches in rt2x00.git which I have not send to linux-wireless yet should _not_ be merged to anywhere since they are often incomplete, incorrect or plain broken. 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
