From: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
To: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: MAINTAINER NEEDED -- Re: status of ipw2x00
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:52:15 +0100
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	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>
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On Monday 30 January 2012 22:47:06 Julian Calaby wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 05:44, John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> 
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 love to do this, and even have the hardware already, but I lack the
> time =(

Maybe if you receive more hardware you will get some motivation again for 
doing it :)
-- 
Florian