Return-path: Received: from eyas.biff.org.uk ([80.68.92.121]:44358 "EHLO eyas.biff.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753268Ab0GXS7W (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:59:22 -0400 Message-ID: <4C4B3801.6010509@thekelleys.org.uk> Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:59:13 +0100 From: Simon Kelley MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "John W. Linville" CC: Dan Williams , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: orphan the atmel wireless driver References: <1279823468-21366-1-git-send-email-linville@tuxdriver.com> <1279837721.4829.19.camel@dcbw.foobar.com> <4C495BD7.2080004@thekelleys.org.uk> <20100723132847.GC6678@tuxdriver.com> In-Reply-To: <20100723132847.GC6678@tuxdriver.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: John W. Linville wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:07:35AM +0100, Simon Kelley wrote: >> Dan Williams wrote: >>> On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 14:31 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: >>>> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville >>> Aww, how sad :(. I'll take it since I still have some of this >>> hardware. Not that I'll do much with it, but if the patches are simple >>> I'm happy to test+ack them. >>> >> Thanks Dan, whilst I still have the hardware, I no longer have a >> convenient PCMCIA slot into which to plug it. >> >> This hardware is well orphaned: it never made is past 802.11b, and there >> have been no new models for a long time. Nevertheless, if the existing >> code can be kept functional, that would be good. > > Is the existing code functional? The device I have seems to only > half work -- I suppose I need to figure that out... > > John I'm not aware of any problems. I'll try and test a new kernel when I can find a PCMCIA-full laptop. If the problem turns out to be your hardware, John, I can send you another card. Cheers, Simon.