> first of all this patch must be tested by other people,
Agreed.
> and, if it is good and works right driver maintainers will add
> it to ath5k source by themselves.
Please read Documentation/SubmittingPatches in any recent linux
kernel source, section "12) Signing your work". This
signed-off-by implies a "Developer's Certificate of Origin".
If you don't do that, than maintainers *CANT* apply your patch,
even if it is correct. They however could take your idea, and
write something by themselves. And if the problem is simple
enought, the actual code might be very similar to yours.
But maybe you want to make life of maintainers easier, not
harder :-)