On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 02:39:07PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:

On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 20:17 +0200, Jiri Benc wrote:

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The biggest change that has not been done is conversion to mac80211.  I
believe it's possible, but I don't expect it to happen overnight.  Until
then, at76_usb uses its own implementation of 802.11 protocol.

Unfortunately, that prevents being accepted to vanilla.

I'd suggest to convert the driver to mac80211 and submit it then;
otherwise people will tend to look at the code saying "NAK, it contains
its own home grown 802.11 stack" only and not to review the driver in
depth.

Well, that make sense.  Helpers are welcome :)

I have added this to the 'at76' branch of wireless-dev, and attempted
to directly recruit some help to get this driver ported to mac80211.
I think that is a requirement for merging upstream, but at least
being in wireless-dev and -mm will get you some visibility, testing,
feedback, etc...

Thanks!

John
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John W. Linville
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