Return-path: Received: from mail-yw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:61298 "EHLO mail-yw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751579Ab1KDOyI (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Nov 2011 10:54:08 -0400 Received: by ywf7 with SMTP id 7so2577279ywf.19 for ; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 07:54:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4EB3FC8C.3010400@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20111104_155412_724511_CB648069) Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:54:04 -0500 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Williams CC: Dmitry Tarnyagin , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: A new driver is going to be released References: <4EB33B67.6080806@lwfinger.net> <1320372088.29008.0.camel@dcbw.foobar.com> In-Reply-To: <1320372088.29008.0.camel@dcbw.foobar.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 11/03/2011 09:01 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > It looks like it's mac80211-based and already in drivers/staging/ > according to the git tree Dmitry pointed to. A staging driver in a private tree is not the same as one in GregKH's staging tree. As this cw1200 driver has been seen by a limited number of developers, it needs to be submitted to staging in mainline before an attempt is made to convert it to the regular tree. Larry