Return-path: Received: from exprod7og119.obsmtp.com ([64.18.2.16]:55631 "EHLO exprod7og119.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757012Ab1DGXKv (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2011 19:10:51 -0400 Received: by pxi16 with SMTP id 16so1597752pxi.4 for ; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:10:49 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <73768.20361.qm@web161614.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <4D9E316E.4000908@lwfinger.net> <73768.20361.qm@web161614.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 18:03:27 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Questions about rt2800usb From: Steev Klimaszewski To: Walter Goldens Cc: Jett Chen , Larry Finger , wireless Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Walter Goldens wrote: > >> I know from experience that the >> staging driver rt82860sta has been replaced by rt2800pci and >> I plan to push a patch deleting the driver from staging. >> >> It appears that rt2870sta has been replaced by rt2800usb. >> Is that correct? If so, I will also include the deletion of >> that driver from staging in the patch. >> >> I noticed that rt2870sta includes a few USB IDs not found >> in rt2800usb, namely: >> >> 0x2001:0x3c09, 0x2001:0x3c0a, and 0x2019:0xed14. >> >> Any reasons why these should not be included in rt2800usb? >> >> Please let me know of any objections to removing those two >> staging drivers. > > Here's my vote against removing the rt2870sta from staging. Some longstanding issues with latency and duplicate packets (rt307x) are persistent with rt2800usb, whereas rt2870sta works fine. > > my two cents > > Walter Personally, I've had the opposite (since the patch to disable power management on rt2800usb.) rt2870sta hasn't been noticeably more stable, and in fact, I tend to see div0 bugs quite often when using it. That said, I'm using Azurewave rt3070s. -- Steev Klimaszewski Senior Software Engineer, Genesi USA, Inc.