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Subject: Re: MAINTAINER NEEDED -- Re: status of ipw2x00
From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>, Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:55:15 -0600
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On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 13:44 -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 02:42:52PM +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> 
> > If we are not able to drop the 2x00 drivers, are anyone still
> > interested in working on them to fix the firmware loading?
> 
> Anyone out there looking for a project?  A way to "break-in" to the
> public Linux community without the risk of breaking anything too
> important? :-)
> 
> If someone wants to be the ipw2x00 maintainer, all they need to do
> is start sending some non-broken patches...

I'd be willing to donate an ipw2200 to somebody who steps up to maintain
the driver.  I'll even consider paying postage.  Note that you'll need
to have a machine with a MiniPCI slot, or a desktop machine with PCI and
a PCI->MiniPCI adapter card.

Dan