Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6

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.