Return-path: Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.27]:42123 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964909AbZGQQgJ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:36:09 -0400 Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 9so236851eyd.37 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:36:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Ivo van Doorn To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Subject: Re: [KARMIC] review these for rt2x00 (adds rt2800pci) Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:36:04 +0200 Cc: Stefan Bader , Manoj Iyer , kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com, "linux-wireless" References: <43e72e890907161615h507e9c59r421d23d22ff05459@mail.gmail.com> <4A602FBA.2010808@canonical.com> <43e72e890907170900r401a0b46tc56736f88d4436a2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43e72e890907170900r401a0b46tc56736f88d4436a2@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Message-Id: <200907171836.04947.IvDoorn@gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Friday 17 July 2009, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Stefan Bader wrote: > > Ivo Van Doorn wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Stefan Bader > >>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> At least this seems to be material for 3 or 4 patches > >>>> - adapt the rfkill stuff > >>>> - some documentation update > >>>> - add the new pci version of the 2800 (with that rt2x00soc lib > >>>>  which might be another patch) > >>>> - and some fixes... > >>> > >>> Not only that but this driver is not yet merged upstream, there should > >>> be a good reason for that. > >>> > >>> Ivo, what's the status on rt2800pci? Some users have been asking about > >>> it. > >> > >> The status is that it is not functioning correctly, during boot it > >> will print out > >> tons of errors about the device not being ready, and afterward it cannot > >> scan, > >> connect or do anything useful. > >> > >> And I think those problems can be considered enough reasons for not > >> merging > >> the driver upstream yet. ;) > >> > >> Ivo > > > > I would say so. :) Assuming there is a bit of truth in those claims of that > > tarball working better than the current kernel code, we might take away all > > the new driver bloat and see what remains (which might be the part Ivo has > > anyways in wireless testing...) > > Its not part of wireless-testing. Well any patches in rt2x00.git which I have not send to linux-wireless yet should _not_ be merged to anywhere since they are often incomplete, incorrect or plain broken. Ivo