Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:16:09 -0500
From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Vasanth.Thiagarajan@Atheros.com,
	Senthilkumar.Balasubramanian@Atheros.com,
	luis.rodrigues@atheros.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ath9k_htc: Add ath9k_htc driver
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On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:35:39AM +0530, Sujith wrote:
> Support for AR9271 chipset.
> 
> Features:
> 
>  * Station mode
>  * IBSS mode
>  * Monitor mode
>  * Legacy support
>  * HT support
>  * TX/RX 11n Aggregation
>  * HW encryption
>  * LED
> 
> For more information: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k_htc
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sujith <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
> Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>

So I got the impression from another thread that Atheros is hoping
to get this merged into the 2.6.34 stream, presumably under the
idea that this is a new driver.  But this doesn't just add files,
it makes a few changes to existing ath9k files (i.e. not just Kconfig
and/or Makefile).

Are you hoping to see this in 2.6.34?  Why don't those other bits
matter?  How can you be sure that they don't destabilize ath9k for
_anyone_?

John
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