From: "John W. Linville" <redacted>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:10:05 -0400
This patch adds z1211 (previously known as zd1211rw-mac80211),
a driver for Zydas ZD1211 hardware. This driver has proven very
robust -- Fedora 7 uses this driver and I don't think I have any open
bugzillas for it. Either the driver works well, or no one as using
it...given the common availability of the hardware, I have to presume
the former. :-)
This driver is mostly a port of zd1211rw to the mac80211
infrastructure. In fact, most zd1211rw patches have been mirrored
directly to this driver for some time. I considered merely updating
the existing driver with this code, but I think it is more prudent to
include this as a separate driver just to avoid confusion. There is
some symbol clash between the two drivers, so I add a Kconfig hack
to ensure that only one or the other is built-in or that this one is
built as a module.
The maintainers have identified some (IMHO minor) issues with the
mac80211 port of this driver. Some of them are summarized here:
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/zd1211rw/mac80211Issues
Still, I think we would be better-off having this driver upstream.
Agreed, merged into net-2.6.24, thanks John.
On Wednesday 19 September 2007 20:59:03 David Miller wrote:
From: "John W. Linville" <redacted>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:10:05 -0400
quoted
This patch adds z1211 (previously known as zd1211rw-mac80211),
a driver for Zydas ZD1211 hardware. This driver has proven very
robust -- Fedora 7 uses this driver and I don't think I have any open
bugzillas for it. Either the driver works well, or no one as using
it...given the common availability of the hardware, I have to presume
the former. :-)
This driver is mostly a port of zd1211rw to the mac80211
infrastructure. In fact, most zd1211rw patches have been mirrored
directly to this driver for some time. I considered merely updating
the existing driver with this code, but I think it is more prudent to
include this as a separate driver just to avoid confusion. There is
some symbol clash between the two drivers, so I add a Kconfig hack
to ensure that only one or the other is built-in or that this one is
built as a module.
The maintainers have identified some (IMHO minor) issues with the
mac80211 port of this driver. Some of them are summarized here:
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/zd1211rw/mac80211Issues
Still, I think we would be better-off having this driver upstream.
Agreed, merged into net-2.6.24, thanks John.
John, please also note that the following patch is not merged, yet.
http://bu3sch.de/patches/wireless-dev/20070915-1740/patches/006-zd-fix-tx-status.patch
Without it ratecontrol does not work. It does neither scale the rate
up nor down. This patch fixes both.
I think it got lost in a (really unrelated to the actual bug) discussion
about whether it's required or not to report status in mac80211 drivers.
(It turned out that it _is_ required).
--
Greetings Michael.
From: Michael Buesch <redacted>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:23:16 +0200
John, please also note that the following patch is not merged, yet.
http://bu3sch.de/patches/wireless-dev/20070915-1740/patches/006-zd-fix-tx-status.patch
Without it ratecontrol does not work. It does neither scale the rate
up nor down. This patch fixes both.
I agreed with John to merge this in myself, but this patch
applied to the old driver aparently, not the new z1211 one.
Can you resend this patch against the new driver so I can
add it to net-2.6.24?
Thanks!