Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f163.google.com ([209.85.218.163]:33289 "EHLO mail-bw0-f163.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753837AbZDUKaS convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:30:18 -0400 Received: by bwz7 with SMTP id 7so1679398bwz.37 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:30:16 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090420135940.GB3369@tuxdriver.com> References: <49E632A1.1050605@gmail.com> <20090415212103.GA5202@kroah.com> <200904182318.56512.IvDoorn@gmail.com> <20090420135940.GB3369@tuxdriver.com> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:30:16 +0200 Message-ID: (sfid-20090421_123025_079499_4DE57531) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add vt6656 driver to drivers/staging. From: Ivo Van Doorn To: "John W. Linville" Cc: Greg KH , Xose Vazquez Perez , dcbw@redhat.com, linux-wireless Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:59 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 11:18:56PM +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote: >> Hi, >> >> > > I hope rt2800pci/usb to be included *ASAP*, because rt2800usb su= pports >> > > more than 1oo USB devices and rt2800pci is included in a lot of >> > > laptops(ask Torvalds [1] [2]) >> > > >> > > [1] http://marc.info/?l=3Dlinux-netdev&m=3D121799144422863&w=3D2 >> > > [2] http://marc.info/?l=3Dlinux-kernel&m=3D123187052023831&w=3D2 >> > >> > That would be great to have in, what's keeping it from happening? >> >> In short: A stable workable driver. >> >> The rt2800usb driver is pretty far (at least on my testsetup), but >> still has problems with transmitting frames immediately after >> association. > > I read this as "it works, but some frames are lost immediately after > association" -- is that right? It is not "Some frames" it is "All frames" you can't get a DHCP lease, or use a static IP and try to do anything. Also 11n APs are not detected at all, which for a 11n client sounds very problematic. > FWIW, this sounds good enough to me > to get it into the mainline kernel. =A0_Please_ submit the rt2800usb > driver for wireless-testing/linux-next ASAP! If the above 2 problems aren't critical for merge, then I'll send the patches as soon as possible. Ivo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireles= s" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html