Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 09:23:49 +0100
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
To: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Parth Sane <laerdevstudios@gmail.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>,
	Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Subject: Re: Ralink 6570 / Mediatek MT7601STA (was Re: Addition of a wifi
 kernel module to the linux source tree)
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On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 03:52:52PM +1100, Julian Calaby wrote:
> 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.

Right. Felix is working on new linux friendly driver for new Mediatek
chips.

Stanislaw