Return-path: Received: from storm.alittletooquiet.net ([67.23.28.199]:39891 "EHLO storm.alittletooquiet.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751446AbZFKN6Q (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:58:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:50:42 -0400 From: Forest Bond To: Harald Welte Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Dan Williams Subject: Re: VT6656 driver source now GPL Message-ID: <20090611135041.GE26234@alittletooquiet.net> References: <20090319164256.GA25237@storm.local.network> <43e72e890903190945m4d8920f5y69f5847b688b0aa1@mail.gmail.com> <20090320131014.GG25237@storm.local.network> <20090414000835.GA31504@storm.local.network> <20090611132954.GA20845@prithivi.gnumonks.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tVmo9FyGdCe4F4YN" In-Reply-To: <20090611132954.GA20845@prithivi.gnumonks.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --tVmo9FyGdCe4F4YN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Harald, Glad to hear from you. I was just about to contact you regarding these dev= ices. On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 09:29:54PM +0800, Harald Welte wrote: > > I'm getting the sense that there is not a lot of developer interest in = these > > drivers. =20 >=20 > I am not surprised. I personally have not yet seen any remotely popular > product in the market that uses a VIA wifi chip. However, this might cha= nge > significantly in Q3/Q4 this year. I have heard from a few interested parties at this point. Greg has been ve= ry helpful as well, although that doesn't seem to be related to his (lack of) interest in these particular devices. ;) > If anyone wants to work on a new driver for the vt6656: I am happy to hel= p with > interfacing VIA's R&D in case there are some specific questions. I > unfortunately cannot help with releasing documentation, as there is almos= t zero > documentation on that part. (not a big surprise, even Intel has no progra= mming > manuals for their wifi chips...) I'm currently working to get the vendor drivers into staging. vt6655 is currently in linux-next, but there are some stability issues that may have = been introduced by some of my build fixes (or may have been present in the origi= nal driver). I'm currently preparing patches to merge vt6656 into -next as wel= l. You mention the idea of working on a new driver. Do you see any value in merging the vendor drivers and cleaning up from there? BTW, these drivers could certainly use more expert attention than what I can offer. I'd be interested in working with you to get the vendor drivers in shape, if you think it is worthwhile. I take it no one at VIA is able to l= ook at the staging drivers in -next? Thanks, Forest --=20 Forest Bond http://www.alittletooquiet.net http://www.pytagsfs.org --tVmo9FyGdCe4F4YN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFKMQuxRO4fQQdv5AwRAulYAJ98zaONeS0CR67graTGuNXvcF/2QwCgtdeB gx4aSapWpmJQugbxFP4g23s= =fU1g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tVmo9FyGdCe4F4YN--