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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:58:42 +0530
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Driver for the ar5523 chipset
From: Mohammed Shafi <shafi.wireless@gmail.com>
To: Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de, s.L-H@gmx.de,
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Hi Pontus,

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>> But what is keeping this driver from going to the "proper" place in the
>> kernel tree (i.e. drivers/net/...)?  I don't have a problem adding it to
>> the staging tree, but it would need a TODO file to list what is needed
>> to get it out of the staging tree.
>
>
> I couldn't decide myself so I asked John and he suggested staging. Perhaps
> it should be in driver/net/wireless after all. Can you and John give some
> advice?
>
> Here's a list of things to consider:
>
> * The FW API is reverse engineered and no real documentation is available.
> * Limited functionality (notably no HW crypto offload).
> * I'm committed to maintaining the driver and fix problems, but only as a
> hobbist.
> * It has received very limited testing. S L-H is the only one except myself
> that has run it.

was just checking out..
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ar5523
may be you can update everything there :)

>
> Cheers,
>
> Pontus
>
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-- 
thanks,
shafi