On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Simon Huggins wrote:
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 03:28:55PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
I've at least made a long overdue release of the driver. I hope this
can get some more exposure and then be an even-more-overdue merge to
Linus.
When are you likely to merge with Linus out of interest? It's a pain to
have to patch drivers manually and the new driver seems better to me
than the old one.
As far as I know. The merging is already underway. We are likely to see
something resembling the current for_linus branch in 2.6.8 or 2.6.9.
Releasing 0.15 in the meantime would definitely help. There are some
minor changes to be done to ensure that all the branches are in-sync and
that the driver is compatible with the latest wireless extensions (in
particular with regard to signal quality data). Compatibility with
wpa_supplicant (802.1x without WPA) would be great if it's easy to
achieve.
I tried to add firmware download for Agere/Lucent firmware, but the
changes would be too heavy for this stage of development. Besides, I
haven't seen any complaints about Agere/Lucent firmware in the last
months. Considering that nobody cared to check monitor mode with 7.xx
firmware, I feel free not to spend too much time on this issue before the
0.15 release.
I'll post status updates once I have a chance to recheck the driver with
the latest kernel.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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