My new email + some notes on mt7601

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 06:14:42PM +0100, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 06, 2014 at 09:06:29PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 04:38:16AM +0000, parthsane at laer.in wrote:
> > > On 2014-12-06 17:51, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > >On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 09:54:29AM +0000, parthsane at laer.in wrote:
> > > >>Hi again,
> > > >>Please note my new email parthsane at laer.in . Also If you guys don't know
> > > >>there's a working source supplied by mediatek for mt7601. Please find
> > > >>the
> > > >>attached tarball. Also please apply this patch I mentioned about
> > > >>earlier.
> > > >>It's at https://gist.github.com/Boggartfly/b18bd86b8eb60fabe160
> > > >>
> > > >>rt_linux.h has the following path in the driver directory.
> > > >>
> > > >>/include/os/rt_linux.h
> > > >>
> > > >>After you replace the patched file everything works and compiles
> > > >>successfully!! Any pointers on what should be done to make it kernel
> > > >>compatible?
> > > >
> > > >Let's wait to see if we have a "real" driver support working in the tree
> > > >soon before adding this huge driver to staging, where it will take a
> > > >long time to clean up and get merged "properly".
> > > >
> > > >thanks,
> > > >
> > > >greg k-h
> > > 
> > > Hi Greg,
> > > I actually wanted to help out cleaning the driver but I have no idea where
> > > to start(my first patch, but I can code). What exactly do you mean by "real"
> > > support? If you know someone I could collaborate with them. I really want to
> > > help out, but I don't know what you're looking out for. Lemme know.
> > 
> > Let's let the existing rt2x00 driver developers weigh in here.  It might
> > just be a matter of adding support for the new device to the existing
> > driver, and if so, we don't want to add a whole new, horrible vendor
> > driver to the kernel tree.  If it turns out it's a totally different
> > device that doesn't fit into the existing driver infrastructure, then we
> > can add the new driver and start from there.
> > 
> > So let's hear what Stanislaw and Helmut say we should do first.
> 
> MT7601 is similar chip like those we already support in the existing
> rt2x00 driver, hence support of it should be added there. I'm going to
> do this.

Ok, that makes sense, anything I can do to test or help out with here?

thanks,

greg k-h