On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Walter Goldens <goldenstranger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I know from experience that the >> staging driver rt82860sta has been replaced by rt2800pci and >> I plan to push a patch deleting the driver from staging. >> >> It appears that rt2870sta has been replaced by rt2800usb. >> Is that correct? If so, I will also include the deletion of >> that driver from staging in the patch. >> >> I noticed that rt2870sta includes a few USB IDs not found >> in rt2800usb, namely: >> >> 0x2001:0x3c09, 0x2001:0x3c0a, and 0x2019:0xed14. >> >> Any reasons why these should not be included in rt2800usb? >> >> Please let me know of any objections to removing those two >> staging drivers. > > Here's my vote against removing the rt2870sta from staging. Some longstanding issues with latency and duplicate packets (rt307x) are persistent with rt2800usb, whereas rt2870sta works fine. > > my two cents > > Walter Personally, I've had the opposite (since the patch to disable power management on rt2800usb.) rt2870sta hasn't been noticeably more stable, and in fact, I tend to see div0 bugs quite often when using it. That said, I'm using Azurewave rt3070s. -- Steev Klimaszewski <steev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Senior Software Engineer, Genesi USA, Inc. -- 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
