On Wednesday 06 August 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, David Miller wrote:

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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?

Like the earlier rt2x00 drivers I am rewriting the driver as released by Ralink and
have put it in the rt2x00lib/mac80211 framework. Most of the code is currently done, and the
last part should be done this week. After that it is a matter of testing and comparing
register values with the Ralink driver for the last tweaks.

I doubt the driver will be ready/stable for 2.6.28, but it should be ready for 2.6.29.

Ivo