Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759357AbYHFNcw (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2008 09:32:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757183AbYHFNcg (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2008 09:32:36 -0400 Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:4365 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756522AbYHFNce (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2008 09:32:34 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 09:15:03 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Ivo van Doorn Cc: Linus Torvalds , Marcel Holtmann , David Miller , Andrew Morton , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [GIT]: Networking Message-ID: <20080806131503.GD7036@tuxdriver.com> References: <20080805.190020.244441681.davem@davemloft.net> <200808061022.02432.IvDoorn@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200808061022.02432.IvDoorn@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1327 Lines: 30 On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 10:22:02AM +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote: > On Wednesday 06 August 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Well, it's also trying to support both 2.4.x and 2.6 etc. Yeah, that is > > horrid. At the same time, I can't say that the "rewrite it entirely" > > approach of the previous-gen cards has worked very well either, since that > > seems to have just perpetuated the problems. It would be great to try to > > educate them, but I'm not finding even an email address in the sources. > > I've send a mail to Ralink with a request if they could step away from the > "port the windows driver to linux" idea and get the Linux driver "kernel-ready" > early on. > That won't solve the problem now, but hopefully it does mean the drivers for > the next generation can go into the kernel sooner. The Ralink guys are being educated and AFAICT they are interested in better participation. Time will tell, of course. In the meantime as Ivo indicated he is "on the case" -- I think we will see something before too long. John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/