From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ivo van Doorn Subject: Re: [GIT]: Networking Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 10:21:55 +0200 Message-ID: <200808061021.56150.IvDoorn@gmail.com> References: <20080805.190020.244441681.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , Andrew Morton , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List To: Linus Torvalds Return-path: Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.187]:45777 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755787AbYHFH4x (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2008 03:56:53 -0400 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id d3so1078774nfc.21 for ; Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:56:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wednesday 06 August 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, David Miller wrote: > > > > There was going to be the addition of the ath9k wireless driver but > > there was some fallout that is being worked on right now (linux/list.h > > changes needed lkml review, ath9k driver triggered some gcc aborts, > > all kinds of fun stuff :-) so hopefully it will make it in the next > > pass. I tried to wait an extra day for it to be resolved, but that > > was optimistic. > > Talking about wireless driver updates - has anybody looked at the RaLink > wireless driver? It's in the newer EeePC's (901 and 1000), and it > actually has a driver from the company which the comments make clear is > GPLv2 too, no apparent oddness or anything: > > http://www.ralinktech.com.tw/data/drivers/2008_0708_RT2860_Linux_STA_v1.7.0.0.tar.bz2 > > which admittedly apparently has some trivial problems (with a trivial > patch as seen at > > http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=195429 > > I'd love to have that one working, since I have the hardware, and it's > actually reasonable (much more so than the original EeePC, in fact). What > channels should I go through? Is anybody working on integrating it > already? Like the earlier rt2x00 drivers I am rewriting the driver as released by Ralink and have put it in the rt2x00lib/mac80211 framework. Most of the code is currently done, and the last part should be done this week. After that it is a matter of testing and comparing register values with the Ralink driver for the last tweaks. I doubt the driver will be ready/stable for 2.6.28, but it should be ready for 2.6.29. Ivo