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Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:09:21 +0200
From: Andreas Hartmann <andihartmann@01019freenet.de>
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To: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [rt2x00-users] [PATCH] wireless: rt2x00: rt2800usb add more devices
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Hello Gertjan,

thank you for your response!


Gertjan van Wingerde wrote:
[...]
> It is impossible to test each and every device that uses a Ralink
> chipset. Therefore we run tests on the chipsets only, and simply list
> all devices that contain these chipsets.
> 
> Granted, we are having issues with some of the chipsets, but that
> should not prevent adding other devices that use the same chipset to
> the driver.

It would help for making decisions on which brand to buy, if there were
a notice in the source code, e.g.: _device successfully tested
(802.11abgn)_ - other devices don't get any comment.

This way, I would be completely content with the practice to fire in
blindly every ID of each existing device containing a Ralink chipset.


Kind regards,
Andreas