> On Wednesday 06 August 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, David Miller wrote:
>>> There was going to be the addition of the ath9k wireless driver but
>>> there was some fallout that is being worked on right now (linux/list.h
>>> changes needed lkml review, ath9k driver triggered some gcc aborts,
>>> all kinds of fun stuff :-) so hopefully it will make it in the next
>>> pass. I tried to wait an extra day for it to be resolved, but that
>>> was optimistic.
>> Talking about wireless driver updates - has anybody looked at the RaLink
>> wireless driver? It's in the newer EeePC's (901 and 1000), and it
>> actually has a driver from the company which the comments make clear is
>> GPLv2 too, no apparent oddness or anything:
>>
>>
http://www.ralinktech.com.tw/data/drivers/2008_0708_RT2860_Linux_STA_v1.7.0.0.tar.bz2
>>
>> which admittedly apparently has some trivial problems (with a trivial
>> patch as seen at
>>
>>
http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=195429
>>
>> I'd love to have that one working, since I have the hardware, and it's
>> actually reasonable (much more so than the original EeePC, in fact). What
>> channels should I go through? Is anybody working on integrating it
>> already?
>
> Like the earlier rt2x00 drivers I am rewriting the driver as released by Ralink and
> have put it in the rt2x00lib/mac80211 framework. Most of the code is currently done, and the
> last part should be done this week. After that it is a matter of testing and comparing
> register values with the Ralink driver for the last tweaks.
