Hi Pontus, On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > >> 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. > > > I couldn't decide myself so I asked John and he suggested staging. Perhaps > it should be in driver/net/wireless after all. Can you and John give some > advice? > > Here's a list of things to consider: > > * The FW API is reverse engineered and no real documentation is available. > * Limited functionality (notably no HW crypto offload). > * I'm committed to maintaining the driver and fix problems, but only as a > hobbist. > * It has received very limited testing. S L-H is the only one except myself > that has run it. was just checking out.. http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ar5523 may be you can update everything there :) > > Cheers, > > Pontus > > -- > 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 -- thanks, shafi -- 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
