Return-path: Received: from mail.atheros.com ([12.36.123.2]:34907 "EHLO mail.atheros.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752641AbYJFRXP (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 13:23:15 -0400 Received: from mail.atheros.com ([10.10.20.108]) by sidewinder.atheros.com for ; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:23:15 -0700 Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 03:23:02 -0700 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: Dan Williams CC: Greg KH , Kalle Valo , "proski@gnu.org" , "linville@tuxdriver.com" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: at76_usb driver status Message-ID: <20081006102302.GA6288@tesla> (sfid-20081006_192317_319477_DC3699AD) References: <20081002210742.GA27221@kroah.com> <87y713y48r.fsf@nokia.com> <20081005061603.GB28533@kroah.com> <1223306593.31040.33.camel@dhcp-100-3-195.bos.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In-Reply-To: <1223306593.31040.33.camel@dhcp-100-3-195.bos.redhat.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:23:13AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > 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. Luis