Return-path: Received: from 8.mo5.mail-out.ovh.net ([178.32.116.78]:56637 "EHLO mo5.mail-out.ovh.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752712AbaLDKyE (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2014 05:54:04 -0500 Received: from mail616.ha.ovh.net (b9.ovh.net [213.186.33.59]) by mo5.mail-out.ovh.net (Postfix) with SMTP id A7F25FF9E3E for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2014 09:28:54 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <54801B1D.2090209@ventoso.org> (sfid-20141204_115408_848989_AEF51EC5) Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 09:28:13 +0100 From: Luca Olivetti MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Stanislaw Gruszka , Helmut Schaa , Parth Sane CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org Subject: Re: Ralink 6570 / Mediatek MT7601STA (was Re: Addition of a wifi kernel module to the linux source tree) References: <20141129191601.GA1234@kroah.com> <20141130184615.GA3122@kroah.com> <20141204012407.GA31191@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20141204012407.GA31191@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: El 04/12/14 a les 02:24, Greg Kroah-Hartman ha escrit: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 06:55:12PM +0000, Parth Sane wrote: >> Hi Greg, >> You can find the source code attached as a tarball. It works and I have tested >> it myself. You only need to use make and make install for this. > > This really looks like a variant of some existing devices, the rt2x00, > Ralink driver. FWIW, if this is the mediatek supplied driver (was this http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-driver-devel/msg57929.html the original message?), it has been discussed here before. It works (when patched[*]) but (IMHO) it's not suitable for kernel inclusion. [*] I collected those patches plus a couple I made to make it work with big endian architecture here: https://code.google.com/p/mt7601-openwrt/source/browse/#hg%2Fpatches Bye -- Luca