mainline kernel integration?

Hi,

I was wondering if you guys are working with the upstream
wireless 
developers to get the drivers which are not present in the
mainline kernel?
Like prism2_usb etc.?

If there is not enough man power, perhaps people from Linux
Driver 
Project[1] could help?


[1] http://linuxdriverproje
ct.org


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On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 10:23:13PM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski
wrote:
> I was wondering if you guys are working with the
upstream wireless 
> developers to get the drivers which are not present in
the mainline kernel?
> Like prism2_usb etc.?

The basic problem is that in order to make linux-wlan-ng (or
even just 
prism2_usb) suitable for kernel inclusion, so much work is
involved 
that it would actually be less work to write a new driver
from 
scratch (or add prism2_usb support to the in-kernel
hostap/prism2 
driver)

The same reason is why there's no WPA support in
linux-wlan-ng.

I'd love to see prism2_usb support go into the mainline
kernel, but it's 
not something I personally have the time to work on.  If
someone else 
wants to take up the torch, I'll provide what assistance I
can.

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Solomon Peachy schrieb:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 10:23:13PM +0200, Tomasz
Chmielewski wrote:
>> I was wondering if you guys are working with the
upstream wireless 
>> developers to get the drivers which are not present
in the mainline kernel?
>> Like prism2_usb etc.?
> 
> The basic problem is that in order to make
linux-wlan-ng (or even just 
> prism2_usb) suitable for kernel inclusion, so much work
is involved 
> that it would actually be less work to write a new
driver from 
> scratch (or add prism2_usb support to the in-kernel
hostap/prism2 
> driver)
> 
> The same reason is why there's no WPA support in
linux-wlan-ng.
> 
> I'd love to see prism2_usb support go into the mainline
kernel, but it's 
> not something I personally have the time to work on. 
If someone else 
> wants to take up the torch, I'll provide what
assistance I can.

I asked the guys from the Linux Driver Project, and it seems
like 
someone would like to pick it up:

http://driverdev.linuxdriverproj
ect.org/pipermail/devel/2007-October/000192.html

Do you by chance have any spare devices?


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Quoting Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoowpkg.org>:

http://driverdev.linuxdriverproj
ect.org/pipermail/devel/2007-October/000192.html
>
> Do you by chance have any spare devices?

I've just offered my D-Link DWL-122 on that list.

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