Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT]: Networking | Date | Wed, 6 Aug 2008 16:35:04 +0200 | From | Ivo van Doorn <> |
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On Wednesday 06 August 2008, John W. Linville wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 10:22:02AM +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 August 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > Well, it's also trying to support both 2.4.x and 2.6 etc. Yeah, that is > > > horrid. At the same time, I can't say that the "rewrite it entirely" > > > approach of the previous-gen cards has worked very well either, since that > > > seems to have just perpetuated the problems. It would be great to try to > > > educate them, but I'm not finding even an email address in the sources. > > > > I've send a mail to Ralink with a request if they could step away from the > > "port the windows driver to linux" idea and get the Linux driver "kernel-ready" > > early on. > > That won't solve the problem now, but hopefully it does mean the drivers for > > the next generation can go into the kernel sooner. > > The Ralink guys are being educated and AFAICT they are interested in > better participation. Time will tell, of course. > > In the meantime as Ivo indicated he is "on the case" -- I think we > will see something before too long.
For the interested, the rt2800pci and rt2800usb code which I am working on can be found in the experimental branch of my repository: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/ivd/rt2x00.git;a=shortlog;h=experimental Because the code is incomplete it cannot be tested, but it gives at least an idea on what is already done. ;)
Ivo
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