> From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:10:05 -0400
>
> > This patch adds z1211 (previously known as zd1211rw-mac80211),
> > a driver for Zydas ZD1211 hardware. This driver has proven very
> > robust -- Fedora 7 uses this driver and I don't think I have any open
> > bugzillas for it. Either the driver works well, or no one as using
> > it...given the common availability of the hardware, I have to presume
> > the former. :-)
> >
> > This driver is mostly a port of zd1211rw to the mac80211
> > infrastructure. In fact, most zd1211rw patches have been mirrored
> > directly to this driver for some time. I considered merely updating
> > the existing driver with this code, but I think it is more prudent to
> > include this as a separate driver just to avoid confusion. There is
> > some symbol clash between the two drivers, so I add a Kconfig hack
> > to ensure that only one or the other is built-in or that this one is
> > built as a module.
> >
> > The maintainers have identified some (IMHO minor) issues with the
> > mac80211 port of this driver. Some of them are summarized here:
> >
> >
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/zd1211rw/mac80211Issues
> >
> > Still, I think we would be better-off having this driver upstream.
>
> Agreed, merged into net-2.6.24, thanks John.
