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| author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2009-03-22 21:44:31 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2009-04-03 14:54:27 -0700 |
| commit | 4e9bf410dc6006e95aba512272747bc8f30e7a20 (patch) | |
| tree | aa367997eef2c1cad07ffdf3c91a2860ca05d6eb /drivers | |
| parent | dc57a3ea80a85a74094b873a693c3e07b2cb5da4 (diff) | |
staging: document that the wifi staging drivers a bit better
The Linux wireless developers don't want to hear anything about the
staging wireless drivers, for a wide range of miopic reasons.
The following patch, based on a patch from Johannes Berg, tries to
document this issue a bit better.
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/staging/otus/TODO | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/staging/rt2860/TODO | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/staging/rt2870/TODO | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/staging/wlan-ng/README | 4 |
4 files changed, 21 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/otus/TODO b/drivers/staging/otus/TODO index e912293ed1e..4caf026a491 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/otus/TODO +++ b/drivers/staging/otus/TODO @@ -1,8 +1,15 @@ +I'm hesitant to add a TODO file here, as the wireless developers would +really have people help them out on the "clean" ar9170 driver that can +be found at the linux-wireless developer site. + +But, if you wish to clean up this driver instead, here's a short list of +things that need to be done to get it into a more mergable shape: + TODO: - checkpatch.pl cleanups - sparse cleanups - port to in-kernel 80211 stack - - proper network developer maintainer + - review by the wireless developer community Please send any patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> and Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@Atheros.com> and the diff --git a/drivers/staging/rt2860/TODO b/drivers/staging/rt2860/TODO index 2f70b0faca3..6158dc2a4b6 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rt2860/TODO +++ b/drivers/staging/rt2860/TODO @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ I'm hesitant to add a TODO file here, as the wireless developers would really have people help them out on the "clean" rt2860 driver that can -be found at the rt2860.sf.net site. +be found at the http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/ site. But, if you wish to clean up this driver instead, here's a short list of things that need to be done to get it into a more mergable shape: @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ things that need to be done to get it into a more mergable shape: TODO: - checkpatch.pl clean - sparse clean - - port to in-kernel 80211 stack + - port to in-kernel 80211 stack and common rt2x00 infrastructure - remove reading from /etc/ config files - review by the wireless developer community diff --git a/drivers/staging/rt2870/TODO b/drivers/staging/rt2870/TODO index eae1ac47d3f..2df1bfed9a5 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rt2870/TODO +++ b/drivers/staging/rt2870/TODO @@ -1,7 +1,14 @@ +I'm hesitant to add a TODO file here, as the wireless developers would +really have people help them out on the "clean" rt2870 driver that can +be found at the http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/ site. + +But, if you wish to clean up this driver instead, here's a short list of +things that need to be done to get it into a more mergable shape: + TODO: - checkpatch.pl clean - sparse clean - - port to in-kernel 80211 stack + - port to in-kernel 80211 stack and common rt2x00 infrastructure - remove reading from /etc/ config files - review by the wireless developer community diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/README b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/README index 9c10dbb000d..028c299b613 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/README +++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/README @@ -4,4 +4,6 @@ TODO: - Lindent cleanups - move to use the in-kernel wireless stack -Please send all patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> +Please send any patches or complaints about this driver to Greg +Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> and don't bother the upstream wireless +kernel developers about it, they want nothing to do with it. |