From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [GIT]: Networking Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 19:57:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20080805.190020.244441681.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Andrew Morton , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ivo van Doorn To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:45232 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752844AbYHFC5H (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2008 22:57:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080805.190020.244441681.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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? (Ivo van Doorn added to Cc, since he seems the go-to guy for the rt2x00 driver in the tree, and may have some input). Linus