On Tuesday 13 October 2009, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Tuesday 13 October 2009 17:52:52 Ivo van Doorn wrote: > > > I am going to merge rt2800pci soon as well and after that I'll send a patch > > Great, I've been waiting for this for a long time. > > > to remove all Ralink drivers from the staging tree. > > Till new drivers obtain support for all hardware currently covered by > the unified staging drivers the latter shouldn't be removed as they > serve well their role as a temporary solution allowing real Linux users > to user their real hardware and as a reference material for developers > willing to work on adding the missing bits to new drivers. The rt2800pci and rt2800usb drivers cover support for rt2860/rt2870/rt3070 devices, which are present as individual drivers in the staging tree. So far it only managed to confuse developers which wanted to work on Ralink support, so I haven't found a benefit for having those drivers in the staging tree yet. But I am sure there are plenty of people who like the idea of having the original Ralink drivers inside the staging tree, so they can continue debugging that, so I won't talk about the staging downsides further. 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
