Staging tree status for the .32 kernel merge

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Thu Sep 3 18:55:46 UTC 2009


On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 02:40:17PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 10:55:11AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 12:17:34PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 10:49:46AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > > > 	- vt66* wireless drivers.  These VIA drivers are being actively
> > > > > 	  worked on to get into a much better shape.  Nice job.
> > > > 
> > > > And do they come with their own wireless stack too?
> > > 
> > > Please don't put in the vendor vt6656 driver, it will conflict with a
> > > proper mac80211 vt6656 driver a group mentored by me will submit late in
> > > the 2.6.32 cycle.
> > 
> > It's already in the linux-next tree, and is almost merged with the
> > vt6655 driver from what I can see.  When your driver goes in I will be
> > glad to disable the device ids that it covers, just let me know.
> 
> vt665_6_ has just one usb device id.  And please make sure to rename the
> crap driver to something else than vt6656.ko so that it does not get in
> way for the proper driver.

Ok, does vt6656_crap.ko sound good to you?  :)

thanks,

greg k-h



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