On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Frederic Leroy <fredo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Le Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:40:10 -0500, > "John W. Linville" <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > >> [...] >> > Should I follow the TODO file from Greg in staging : >> > ( which seems to merge : rtl8192e rtl8192su rtl8192u ) >> > [...] >> This is a reasonable plan overall, although I might quibble with >> the order. >> >> > Or use rtl818x tree to start a new device ? >> >> YMMV, but given the code I've seen for the Realtek drivers in staging >> I might be inclined to start by forking rtl8180 and making the >> necessary hardware changes from there. > > It was my impression too, but as you say, YMMV. It will be my first > driver, although I already hacked the kernel, make netfilters modules > and read lwn ;). > > For the process, it is still unclear for me. I copy rtl8180*[ch] to > rtl8192*[ch], and start to hack into to make clean git patches ? > > On which tree should I base my work : > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git ? It is probably useful to pull from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git as well - I think wireless-testing's log may be more granular -- 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
