On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:01:38PM +0200, Pontus Fuchs wrote: > Some time ago I found an old USB wireless dongle in my drawer. I was > surprised it wasn't supported in Linux. Google gave me an old > unfinished driver created by Christoph Hellwig. Armed with some > spare time and naivity I picked up where Christoph left in 2007 and > now it's actually working pretty fine. It does not crash for me and > throughput is decent. > > It's based on the FreeBSD driver, which in turn is based on the > reverse engineered Windows driver, hence a very limited feature set. > Not even HW crypto offload is supported. But at least there is a > firmware which has a suitable license: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/contrib/dev/uath/ar5523.bin.uu > > Pontus Fuchs (4): > ar5523: Add main driver file > ar5523: Add driver header file > ar5523: Add Firmware API header file > ar5523: Add Kconfig and Makefile > > drivers/staging/Kconfig | 2 + > drivers/staging/Makefile | 1 + > drivers/staging/ar5523/Kconfig | 7 + > drivers/staging/ar5523/Makefile | 1 + > drivers/staging/ar5523/ar5523.c | 1824 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/staging/ar5523/ar5523.h | 164 ++++ > drivers/staging/ar5523/ar5523_hw.h | 447 +++++++++ > 7 files changed, 2446 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 drivers/staging/ar5523/Kconfig > create mode 100644 drivers/staging/ar5523/Makefile > create mode 100644 drivers/staging/ar5523/ar5523.c > create mode 100644 drivers/staging/ar5523/ar5523.h > create mode 100644 drivers/staging/ar5523/ar5523_hw.h Very nice. But what is keeping this driver from going to the "proper" place in the kernel tree (i.e. drivers/net/...)? I don't have a problem adding it to the staging tree, but it would need a TODO file to list what is needed to get it out of the staging tree. 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
