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author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2009-03-22 16:44:31 -0400 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2009-04-03 17:54:27 -0400 |
commit | 4e9bf410dc6006e95aba512272747bc8f30e7a20 (patch) | |
tree | aa367997eef2c1cad07ffdf3c91a2860ca05d6eb | |
parent | dc57a3ea80a85a74094b873a693c3e07b2cb5da4 (diff) |
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>
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/staging/otus/TODO | 9 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/staging/rt2860/TODO | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/staging/rt2870/TODO | 9 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/staging/wlan-ng/README | 4 |
4 files changed, 21 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/otus/TODO b/drivers/staging/otus/TODO index e912293ed1ed..4caf026a4915 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/otus/TODO +++ b/drivers/staging/otus/TODO | |||
@@ -1,8 +1,15 @@ | |||
1 | I'm hesitant to add a TODO file here, as the wireless developers would | ||
2 | really have people help them out on the "clean" ar9170 driver that can | ||
3 | be found at the linux-wireless developer site. | ||
4 | |||
5 | But, if you wish to clean up this driver instead, here's a short list of | ||
6 | things that need to be done to get it into a more mergable shape: | ||
7 | |||
1 | TODO: | 8 | TODO: |
2 | - checkpatch.pl cleanups | 9 | - checkpatch.pl cleanups |
3 | - sparse cleanups | 10 | - sparse cleanups |
4 | - port to in-kernel 80211 stack | 11 | - port to in-kernel 80211 stack |
5 | - proper network developer maintainer | 12 | - review by the wireless developer community |
6 | 13 | ||
7 | Please send any patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> and | 14 | Please send any patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> and |
8 | Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@Atheros.com> and the | 15 | Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@Atheros.com> and the |
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rt2860/TODO b/drivers/staging/rt2860/TODO index 2f70b0faca3d..6158dc2a4b66 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rt2860/TODO +++ b/drivers/staging/rt2860/TODO | |||
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ | |||
1 | I'm hesitant to add a TODO file here, as the wireless developers would | 1 | I'm hesitant to add a TODO file here, as the wireless developers would |
2 | really have people help them out on the "clean" rt2860 driver that can | 2 | really have people help them out on the "clean" rt2860 driver that can |
3 | be found at the rt2860.sf.net site. | 3 | be found at the http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/ site. |
4 | 4 | ||
5 | But, if you wish to clean up this driver instead, here's a short list of | 5 | But, if you wish to clean up this driver instead, here's a short list of |
6 | things that need to be done to get it into a more mergable shape: | 6 | things that need to be done to get it into a more mergable shape: |
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ things that need to be done to get it into a more mergable shape: | |||
8 | TODO: | 8 | TODO: |
9 | - checkpatch.pl clean | 9 | - checkpatch.pl clean |
10 | - sparse clean | 10 | - sparse clean |
11 | - port to in-kernel 80211 stack | 11 | - port to in-kernel 80211 stack and common rt2x00 infrastructure |
12 | - remove reading from /etc/ config files | 12 | - remove reading from /etc/ config files |
13 | - review by the wireless developer community | 13 | - review by the wireless developer community |
14 | 14 | ||
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rt2870/TODO b/drivers/staging/rt2870/TODO index eae1ac47d3f9..2df1bfed9a58 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rt2870/TODO +++ b/drivers/staging/rt2870/TODO | |||
@@ -1,7 +1,14 @@ | |||
1 | I'm hesitant to add a TODO file here, as the wireless developers would | ||
2 | really have people help them out on the "clean" rt2870 driver that can | ||
3 | be found at the http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/ site. | ||
4 | |||
5 | But, if you wish to clean up this driver instead, here's a short list of | ||
6 | things that need to be done to get it into a more mergable shape: | ||
7 | |||
1 | TODO: | 8 | TODO: |
2 | - checkpatch.pl clean | 9 | - checkpatch.pl clean |
3 | - sparse clean | 10 | - sparse clean |
4 | - port to in-kernel 80211 stack | 11 | - port to in-kernel 80211 stack and common rt2x00 infrastructure |
5 | - remove reading from /etc/ config files | 12 | - remove reading from /etc/ config files |
6 | - review by the wireless developer community | 13 | - review by the wireless developer community |
7 | 14 | ||
diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/README b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/README index 9c10dbb000d5..028c299b613e 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/README +++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/README | |||
@@ -4,4 +4,6 @@ TODO: | |||
4 | - Lindent cleanups | 4 | - Lindent cleanups |
5 | - move to use the in-kernel wireless stack | 5 | - move to use the in-kernel wireless stack |
6 | 6 | ||
7 | Please send all patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> | 7 | Please send any patches or complaints about this driver to Greg |
8 | Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> and don't bother the upstream wireless | ||
9 | kernel developers about it, they want nothing to do with it. | ||