Return-path: Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:34544 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752147AbYJ1GMg (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:12:36 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:10:23 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Ivo Van Doorn Cc: rt2400-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: rtl2860 driver in mainline? Message-ID: <20081028061023.GA6568@kroah.com> (sfid-20081028_071244_444831_50EF28EF) References: <20081028004915.GA3442@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 06:48:31AM +0100, Ivo Van Doorn wrote: > Hi, > > > So, on my quest to suck up every out-of-tree driver and get it into the > > main kernel tree (drivers/staging/ to start with), I've been pointed at > > the rtl2860 driver. > > in that case make sure you include rt2870 on your list as well then. ;) Do you have a pointer to it? > > Does anyone know of a "cleaned up" version of this driver that is > > newer/better than the one on ralink's web site? I found the > > 2008_0918_RT2860_Linux_STA_v1.8.0.0.tar.bz2 version there, and will > > start with that if no one else has yet. > > rt2800pci/rt2800usb development is in progress in the rt2x00.git > experimental branch: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/ivd/rt2x00.git;a=shortlog;h=experimental > > The current status is that rt2800usb has working RX with some warnings > regarding the > RX signal, and a non functional TX. rt2800pci isn't complete yet. > > So far progress has been very slow because of lack of time, so any help with the > development of the drivers is welcome. Is this a port of the tarball driver to the in-kernel wireless stack, or starting over from scratch? As it's not really working, do you mind if I just dump the tarball driver into the staging tree for users to use now (hint, they already are, the distros are shipping that driver as a kernel module package), and then when this "real" driver is up and working properly, we can drop the staging version? thanks, greg k-h