Return-path: Received: from mail-ey0-f174.google.com ([209.85.215.174]:55194 "EHLO mail-ey0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753703Ab2A3VwT (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:52:19 -0500 Received: by eaal13 with SMTP id l13so1272922eaa.19 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:52:18 -0800 (PST) From: Florian Fainelli To: Julian Calaby Subject: Re: MAINTAINER NEEDED -- Re: status of ipw2x00 Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:52:15 +0100 Cc: "John W. Linville" , Tom Gundersen , "Wey-Yi Guy" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Kay Sievers References: <20120130184446.GB2493@tuxdriver.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <201201302252.15435.florian@openwrt.org> (sfid-20120130_225225_732585_38CC7023) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Monday 30 January 2012 22:47:06 Julian Calaby wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 05:44, 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 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