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From: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 15:52:52 +1100
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Subject: Re: Ralink 6570 / Mediatek MT7601STA (was Re: Addition of a wifi
 kernel module to the linux source tree)
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Parth Sane <laerdevstudios@gmail.com>,
	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>,
	Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org,
	Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>,
	Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de>
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Hi Greg,

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 07:07:58AM +0530, Parth Sane wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'd say I'm midway through with c programming(part of my computer
>> engineering degree course) and know a decent amount of git. So yes I'm
>> comfortable writing code.
>
> Ok great, let's see if it's just a matter of some changes to the
> existing kernel driver before we decide to add the whole huge tarball
> to the staging tree as fixing it up will be a lot of work.

I believe some people (CC'd) may have been working on / had an
interest in writing such a driver. I'm not sure what the status of
that effort is though.

Thanks,

-- 
Julian Calaby

Email: julian.calaby@gmail.com
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