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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-03-22 21:44:31 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-04-03 14:54:27 -0700
commit4e9bf410dc6006e95aba512272747bc8f30e7a20 (patch)
treeaa367997eef2c1cad07ffdf3c91a2860ca05d6eb /drivers/staging
parentdc57a3ea80a85a74094b873a693c3e07b2cb5da4 (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/staging')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/otus/TODO9
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/rt2860/TODO4
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/rt2870/TODO9
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/wlan-ng/README4
4 files changed, 21 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/otus/TODO b/drivers/staging/otus/TODO
index e912293ed1ed..4caf026a4915 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 2f70b0faca3d..6158dc2a4b66 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 eae1ac47d3f9..2df1bfed9a58 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 9c10dbb000d5..028c299b613e 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.