Return-path: Received: from mail-wg0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:38265 "EHLO mail-wg0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755153Ab2JOUyj (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:54:39 -0400 Received: by mail-wg0-f44.google.com with SMTP id dr13so4796116wgb.1 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:54:38 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1349985702-21322-2-git-send-email-pontus.fuchs@gmail.com> References: <1349985702-21322-1-git-send-email-pontus.fuchs@gmail.com> <1349985702-21322-2-git-send-email-pontus.fuchs@gmail.com> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:54:17 -0700 Message-ID: (sfid-20121015_225442_976568_9CEAC5E4) Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] ar5523: Add main driver file To: Pontus Fuchs Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de, s.L-H@gmx.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Pontus Fuchs wrote: > This driver is for the AR5523 chipset from Atheros. It was created > in 2007 by Christoph Hellwig but it was never finished. I found it a > couple if months ago and after some polishing it's working pretty > fine. > > The driver was written with the FreeBSD driver (uath) as reference, > which was written with the reverse-engineered windows driver as > reference, hence the feature set is very limited. Station mode > only, no HW crypto offload. > > Signed-off-by: Pontus Fuchs If you guys want to help share code with the BSD family then my recommendation would be to use a permissive license as we have on ath9k for example. If that is not an objective then the existing license is fine. I'm fine with this going into drivers/net/wireless/ath/ but I unfortunately don't have time right now to review the code. Luis