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Subject: Re: Getting Started
From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
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On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 11:09 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 17:04 +0200, Nick Kossifidis wrote:
> > > For example, the openmoko people are writing a mac80211 driver
> > > for ar6k. Not every driver is already in the wireless-2.6 git
> > > tree.
> > 
> > [OT]
> > 
> > As far as i know Atheros released a GPLed driver along with their SDIO stack.
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/sdio-linux/
> > 
> > Do you have a plan to include this in kernel ? What's the status ?
> 
> 2.6.24 already has an SDIO stack; hence the Atheros one is redundant.
> The openmoko people already have a port of their ar6k driver to the
> in-kernel SDIO stack.

Which of course means that one big barrier to including the ar6k driver
is already removed.  You can browse the ar6k openmoko code at:

http://svn.openmoko.org/developers/sameo/patches/ar6k-ng/

Dan