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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-03-22 16:44:31 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-04-03 17:54:27 -0400
commit4e9bf410dc6006e95aba512272747bc8f30e7a20 (patch)
treeaa367997eef2c1cad07ffdf3c91a2860ca05d6eb
parentdc57a3ea80a85a74094b873a693c3e07b2cb5da4 (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/TODO9
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/rt2860/TODO4
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/rt2870/TODO9
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/wlan-ng/README4
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 @@
1I'm hesitant to add a TODO file here, as the wireless developers would
2really have people help them out on the "clean" ar9170 driver that can
3be found at the linux-wireless developer site.
4
5But, if you wish to clean up this driver instead, here's a short list of
6things that need to be done to get it into a more mergable shape:
7
1TODO: 8TODO:
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
7Please send any patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> and 14Please send any patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> and
8Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@Atheros.com> and the 15Luis 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 @@
1I'm hesitant to add a TODO file here, as the wireless developers would 1I'm hesitant to add a TODO file here, as the wireless developers would
2really have people help them out on the "clean" rt2860 driver that can 2really have people help them out on the "clean" rt2860 driver that can
3be found at the rt2860.sf.net site. 3be found at the http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/ site.
4 4
5But, if you wish to clean up this driver instead, here's a short list of 5But, if you wish to clean up this driver instead, here's a short list of
6things that need to be done to get it into a more mergable shape: 6things 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:
8TODO: 8TODO:
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 @@
1I'm hesitant to add a TODO file here, as the wireless developers would
2really have people help them out on the "clean" rt2870 driver that can
3be found at the http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/ site.
4
5But, if you wish to clean up this driver instead, here's a short list of
6things that need to be done to get it into a more mergable shape:
7
1TODO: 8TODO:
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
7Please send all patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> 7Please send any patches or complaints about this driver to Greg
8Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> and don't bother the upstream wireless
9kernel developers about it, they want nothing to do with it.