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Subject: Re: MAINTAINER NEEDED -- Re: status of ipw2x00
From: Stanislav Yakovlev <stas.yakovlev@gmail.com>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>, Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>,
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Hi John,

On 30 January 2012 21:44, 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 would volunteer taking ipw2x00 driver maintenance if it is ok with everyone.

I have already sent a few patches to ipw2x00:
f961e34ebef84b532ec6c477f73b66d9a8b0ddbc and
6e6ae9ddf0bc19ce066ed2f66f7a52b827e4514e.

Stanislav.