Return-path: Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:36215 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751932AbYJ1Akb (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:40:31 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:29:19 -0700 From: Greg KH To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: "otus-devel@lists.madwifi-project.org" , Johannes Berg , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , Linux-Kernel , Luis Rodriguez , Joey Krane Subject: Re: [otus-devel] Release of Atheros 802.11n USB Linux driver Message-ID: <20081028002919.GB2992@kroah.com> (sfid-20081028_014036_910776_0DA258B2) References: <43e72e890810211904x7bd243dem68dfcfe7a795ec6f@mail.gmail.com> <20081022065045.GA2400@kroah.com> <20081023062655.GA8039@kroah.com> <20081023111103.GB5979@tesla> <43e72e890810271635i5b6dd6e4ua06b48e624991435@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <43e72e890810271635i5b6dd6e4ua06b48e624991435@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 04:35:11PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez > wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:26:55PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:50:45PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > >> > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 07:04:17PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > >> > > We would like to see our Atheros 802.11n USB Linux driver upstream > >> > > however we need help with this so we are releasing our Atheros 11n USB > >> > > Otus Linux driver under the ISC to the community. The goal is to work > >> > > with the community to help move this forward upstream. We are hoping > >> > > for community help and leadership on this (*cough*). > >> > > >> > Yeah! > >> > > >> > I'll grab this and put it in drivers/staging/ so it gets some users and > >> > more developers to help out with it. > >> > >> Ok, it seems to need some basic work to merely build properly on > >> "modern" kernel versions. > > > > Yeah, it works up to 2.6.24. > > This is now fixed on the master branch, also the branch "for-upstream" > does a lot of cleanup I thought you may like before stuffing it into > staging like removing all KERNEL_VERSION checks, all wireless > extensions checks, some compile warnings, removal of compat, dos2unix, > use utf-8, etc. Unfortunately this still requires a specific version > of wpa_supplicant but it seems it works. Not sure what bars you have > for staging at this point. Pretty much the only "bar" is "it compiles" :) > Will you take this in, and expect patches for fixing it to use > standard wext and also report standard wireless statistic (yeap, this > is not there yet either). Yes, I can do that. > Joey is one user which reported the driver working now with the > compile fixes for newer kernels for 2.6.28-rc2 using the specific > version of wpa_supplicant for it. > > Joey can you test the for-upstream branch on otus git? If someone can tell me what device this is for, I can try to go buy it so that I can verify changes I make don't drasticly break things. I'll go try to get this tree into a buildable state and put it into staging tonight. thanks, greg k-h