Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933554AbZJNOQw (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:16:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933496AbZJNOQv (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:16:51 -0400 Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:59165 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933478AbZJNOQu (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:16:50 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:14:06 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Luis Correia Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Dan Williams , Ivo van Doorn , Ozan =?utf-8?B?w4dhxJ9sYXlhbg==?= , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel Subject: Re: Current status of rt2800usb and staging/rt2870 Message-ID: <20091014141405.GB2890@tuxdriver.com> References: <4AD46380.9020308@pardus.org.tr> <200910132121.25743.bzolnier@gmail.com> <1255464940.10798.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200910132357.57094.bzolnier@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1072 Lines: 29 On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:21:53PM +0100, Luis Correia wrote: > Since some days now, we have someone in the team which works for > Ralink, I'm hopefull that he can find some time to help us make the > driver better. This (I hope) is the future. If we can get the vendors to cooperate with us at this level then we can eliminate the vendor/upstream driver distinction. While I try to be ambivalent about drivers/staging, I _do_ think that it tends to enable vendors to get aways with _less_ support of the community by facilitating them in taking advantage of the "pragmatic" among us. > And now, i'm going back to my lovely hole, having added nothing to > this conversation. I disagree! :-) John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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/