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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>
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drivers/staging/otus/TODO
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drivers/staging/otus/TODO
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I'm hesitant to add a TODO file here, as the wireless developers would
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really have people help them out on the "clean" ar9170 driver that can
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be found at the linux-wireless developer site.
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But, if you wish to clean up this driver instead, here's a short list of
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things that need to be done to get it into a more mergable shape:
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TODO:
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- checkpatch.pl cleanups
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- sparse cleanups
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- port to in-kernel 80211 stack
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- proper network developer maintainer
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- review by the wireless developer community
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Please send any patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> and
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Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@Atheros.com> and the
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drivers/staging/rt2860/TODO
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drivers/staging/rt2860/TODO
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I'm hesitant to add a TODO file here, as the wireless developers would
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really have people help them out on the "clean" rt2860 driver that can
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be found at the rt2860.sf.net site.
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be found at the http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/ site.
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But, if you wish to clean up this driver instead, here's a short list of
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things that need to be done to get it into a more mergable shape:
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TODO:
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- checkpatch.pl clean
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- sparse clean
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- port to in-kernel 80211 stack
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- port to in-kernel 80211 stack and common rt2x00 infrastructure
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- remove reading from /etc/ config files
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- review by the wireless developer community
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drivers/staging/rt2870/TODO
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drivers/staging/rt2870/TODO
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I'm hesitant to add a TODO file here, as the wireless developers would
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really have people help them out on the "clean" rt2870 driver that can
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be found at the http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/ site.
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But, if you wish to clean up this driver instead, here's a short list of
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things that need to be done to get it into a more mergable shape:
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TODO:
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- checkpatch.pl clean
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- sparse clean
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- port to in-kernel 80211 stack
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- port to in-kernel 80211 stack and common rt2x00 infrastructure
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- remove reading from /etc/ config files
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- review by the wireless developer community
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drivers/staging/wlan-ng/README
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drivers/staging/wlan-ng/README
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- Lindent cleanups
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- move to use the in-kernel wireless stack
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Please send all patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
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Please send any patches or complaints about this driver to Greg
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Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> and don't bother the upstream wireless
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kernel developers about it, they want nothing to do with it.