From henk.de.groot@hetnet.nl Wed Oct 28 18:19:39 2009 From: Henk de Groot Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:43:55 +0100 Subject: Staging: wlags49_h2: add TODO files To: Greg KH Cc: Greg KH , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Message-ID: <4AE8C92B.4040606@hetnet.nl> Adds TODO to the wlags_h2 and wlags_h5 staging drivers. Signed-off-by: Henk de Groot Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/wlags49_h2/TODO | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/staging/wlags49_h25/TODO | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 66 insertions(+) --- /dev/null +++ b/drivers/staging/wlags49_h25/TODO @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +First of all, the best thing would be that this driver becomes obsolte by +adding support for Hermes II and Hermes II.5 cards to the existing orinoco +driver. The orinoco driver currently only supports Hermes I based cards. +Since this will not happen by magic and has not happend until now this +driver provides a stop-gap solution for these type of cards. + +Having said that, the following wishlist comes to mind to make the driver +suitable as fully supported kernel driver. Feel free to expand/enhance the +list. + +TODO: + - verify against a Hermes II.5 card + - verify with WPA encription (both with H2 and H2.5 cards) + - sometimes the card does not initialize correctly, retry mechanisms + are build in to catch most cases but not all + - once the driver runs it is very stable, but I have the impression + some the crittical sections take to long + - the driver is split into a Hermes II and a Hermes II.5 part, it + would be nice to handle both with one module instead of two + - review by the wireless developer community + - verify the code against the coding standards for a propper linux + driver + - resolve license issues (?) + +DONE: + - verified against a Hermes II card (Thomson Speedtouch 110 PCMCIA + card) + - verified with WEP encription + +Please send any patches or complaints about this driver to Greg +Kroah-Hartman and Cc: Henk de Groot +Don't bother the upstream wireless kernel developers about it, they +want nothing to do with it. --- /dev/null +++ b/drivers/staging/wlags49_h2/TODO @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +First of all, the best thing would be that this driver becomes obsolte by +adding support for Hermes II and Hermes II.5 cards to the existing orinoco +driver. The orinoco driver currently only supports Hermes I based cards. +Since this will not happen by magic and has not happend until now this +driver provides a stop-gap solution for these type of cards. + +Having said that, the following wishlist comes to mind to make the driver +suitable as fully supported kernel driver. Feel free to expand/enhance the +list. + +TODO: + - verify against a Hermes II.5 card + - verify with WPA encription (both with H2 and H2.5 cards) + - sometimes the card does not initialize correctly, retry mechanisms + are build in to catch most cases but not all + - once the driver runs it is very stable, but I have the impression + some the crittical sections take to long + - the driver is split into a Hermes II and a Hermes II.5 part, it + would be nice to handle both with one module instead of two + - review by the wireless developer community + - verify the code against the coding standards for a propper linux + driver + - resolve license issues (?) + +DONE: + - verified against a Hermes II card (Thomson Speedtouch 110 PCMCIA + card) + - verified with WEP encription + +Please send any patches or complaints about this driver to Greg +Kroah-Hartman and Cc: Henk de Groot +Don't bother the upstream wireless kernel developers about it, they +want nothing to do with it.