Return-path: Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:2252 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761269AbXHWVPI (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:15:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:58:51 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Pavel Roskin Cc: Jiri Benc , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Guido Guenther , at76c503a-develop@lists.berlios.de Subject: Re: at76_usb - fourth submission attempt Message-ID: <20070823205851.GK2989@tuxdriver.com> References: <1184228166.2377.31.camel@dv> <20070712201702.72209493@griffin.suse.cz> <1184265547.29486.2.camel@dv> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1184265547.29486.2.camel@dv> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 02:39:07PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 20:17 +0200, Jiri Benc wrote: > > > The biggest change that has not been done is conversion to mac80211. I > > > believe it's possible, but I don't expect it to happen overnight. Until > > > then, at76_usb uses its own implementation of 802.11 protocol. > > > > Unfortunately, that prevents being accepted to vanilla. > > > > I'd suggest to convert the driver to mac80211 and submit it then; > > otherwise people will tend to look at the code saying "NAK, it contains > > its own home grown 802.11 stack" only and not to review the driver in > > depth. > > Well, that make sense. Helpers are welcome :) I have added this to the 'at76' branch of wireless-dev, and attempted to directly recruit some help to get this driver ported to mac80211. I think that is a requirement for merging upstream, but at least being in wireless-dev and -mm will get you some visibility, testing, feedback, etc... Thanks! John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com