wireless drivers in staging

John W. Linville linville at tuxdriver.com
Mon Sep 14 15:30:24 UTC 2009


On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 01:18:20PM -0700, Jim Lieb wrote:
> On Friday 11 September 2009 12:27:09 John W. Linville wrote:
> > Beyond that, I was hoping to "break the ice" a bit between the
> > driverdev group and the wireless group.  It would be good if we could
> > get people working together towards a mutually acceptable set of
> > drivers rather than having one group toiling on something the other
> > group considers a "dead end".  Let's hope... :-)

> I'm all ears wrt help.  I've been cleaning up the pci/init for the vt6655
> and am finding all kinds of interesting timing/access issues.  Is there a
> possiblity that we/I could get some datasheets or ??? from Via on these
> parts?  It appears to me that reality and the code are on divergent paths.

I'm not sure, but I hope so! :-)  Seriously, if Greg doesn't have
a contact then you might contact Harald Welte.  He was hired by VIA
some time ago as a community liaison, and I know he had offered to
be helpful in this regard.

Hth!

John
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