Return-path: Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.44.29]:55064 "EHLO yx-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751328AbYJ0XfN (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:35:13 -0400 Message-ID: <43e72e890810271635i5b6dd6e4ua06b48e624991435@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20081028_003521_321899_BE80126F) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:35:11 -0700 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: "Greg KH" Subject: Re: [otus-devel] Release of Atheros 802.11n USB Linux driver Cc: "otus-devel@lists.madwifi-project.org" , "Johannes Berg" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , Linux-Kernel , "Luis Rodriguez" , "Joey Krane" In-Reply-To: <20081023111103.GB5979@tesla> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 References: <43e72e890810211904x7bd243dem68dfcfe7a795ec6f@mail.gmail.com> <20081022065045.GA2400@kroah.com> <20081023062655.GA8039@kroah.com> <20081023111103.GB5979@tesla> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. 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). 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? Luis