From johannes@sipsolutions.net Mon Mar 23 16:28:53 2009 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:44:31 +0100 Subject: staging: document that the wifi staging drivers a bit better To: Greg KH Message-ID: <1237754671.19647.7.camel@johannes.local> 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/otus/TODO | 9 ++++++++- drivers/staging/rt2860/TODO | 4 ++-- drivers/staging/rt2870/TODO | 9 ++++++++- drivers/staging/wlan-ng/README | 4 +++- 4 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- 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 and Luis Rodriguez and the --- 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 in 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 --- 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 --- 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 +Please send any patches or complaints about this driver to Greg +Kroah-Hartman and don't bother the upstream wireless +kernel developers about it, they want nothing to do with it.