Return-path: Received: from mail-pz0-f197.google.com ([209.85.222.197]:48426 "EHLO mail-pz0-f197.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934749AbZGQQyP convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:54:15 -0400 Received: by pzk35 with SMTP id 35so702863pzk.33 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:54:14 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200907171836.04947.IvDoorn@gmail.com> References: <43e72e890907161615h507e9c59r421d23d22ff05459@mail.gmail.com> <4A602FBA.2010808@canonical.com> <43e72e890907170900r401a0b46tc56736f88d4436a2@mail.gmail.com> <200907171836.04947.IvDoorn@gmail.com> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:53:54 -0700 Message-ID: <43e72e890907170953k6985ecc2o508481c713b0bacc@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [KARMIC] review these for rt2x00 (adds rt2800pci) To: Ivo van Doorn Cc: Stefan Bader , Manoj Iyer , kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com, linux-wireless Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Ivo van Doorn wrote: > 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. Thanks Ivo -- that is what I suspected. Please do not merge wireless shit into karmic unless upstream. If its really shit then please push to staging. Luis