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Subject: Re: at76_usb driver status
From: Marcel Holtmann <holtmann@linux.intel.com>
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Hi Luis,

> > Well, you have to ask yourself then, what's the point of putting that
> > driver with it's own 802.11 stack into staging when it's never going to
> > go into the mainline kernel until it uses mac80211?
> 
> And provided that there is an alternative driver that uses mac80211. Die
> out of tree drivers, die.

I can only second that. If it is a SoftMAC and not using mac80211 then
it is not even worth it. We want the mac80211 ported driver to go
upstream. Everything else is just waste of time.

Regards

Marcel