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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor_Stefanik?= <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 01:34:19 +0200
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Subject: Re: Atheros Linux wireless drivers home page - and two new driver
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To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez<mcgrof@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce the new home page to Atheros Linux wireless drivers:
>
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/Atheros
>
> To get updates just subscribe to the wiki. There you will find
> information regarding any old legacy Atheros driver and any proper
> upstream driver.
>
> I'd like to also take the time to announce two devices for which
> support is currently being developed for: ar5523 and ar9271. Both
> ar5523 and ar9271 device support is currently being worked on either
> by the community or by Atheros itself. Both of these driver projects
> will be using th Linux driver project [1] to gain traction. Patches
> and development discussions regarding these two drivers prior to
> getting upstream into drivers/net/wireless/ will take place on the
> Linux driver project mailing list [2]. For direct one-on-one
> communication for support and development we will rely on the
> #linux-wireless IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. Both devices are USB
> but differ greatly, please visit the ar5523 page [2] and the ar9271
> page [3] for further device specifics and more information.
>
> The model of development for ar9271 device support is rather new -- we
> are not targeting staging, instead we target using the strength of
> community development at an extremely early stage, as early as is
> possible, even before the device is functional. If we get a device
> driver functional prior to meeting upstream requirements then so be it
> -- and the driver does gets stuffed into drivers/staging. End goal is
> to get it into proper drivers/net/wireless/ but obviously it will not
> hurt to get users some device functionality prior to that.
>
> The time of turnaround to getting users supported either through
> drivers/staging or drivers/net/wireless/ will ultimately depend on the
> resources dedicated to it. Right now I know only Stefan
> Lippers-Hollmann is working on ar5523 support and I'm the only one
> working on ar9271 support. With your help I am in hopes this will
> change soon.
>
> [1] http://www.linuxdriverproject.org/twiki/bin/view
> [2] http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
> [3] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ar5523
> [4] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ar9271
>
> ?Luis
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About ar9271: is this device already in the market, or the chip itself
is also still in development?

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