Messages in this thread | | | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: [announce] new rt2800 drivers for Ralink wireless & project tree | Date | Fri, 6 Nov 2009 19:30:13 +0100 |
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On Friday 06 November 2009 18:58:56 Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> drivers/net/staging/rt28{6,7}0 was developed by Ralink and I acked
The original vendor drivers were: - rt2860 - rt2870 - rt3070 - rt3090
Each weighting ~100 KLOC.
The current staging drivers (rt2860 w/ RT3090 support and rt2870 w/ RT3070 support) are the result of my work on getting staging drivers under control (+ trying some new strategies of dealing with ugly code) and weight ~75 KLOC _together_ (they share the wireless stack code).
> the merged for those drivers after the asurance that it was only merged > to please the users so developers could focus on the rt2x00 version of > the driver.
Could somebody please explain me (in the public or in the private) what is the reason behind whole affair about staging drivers because all the time I feel like I'm missing some important detail here. It would a lot more productive than all the things that I could hear about my agenda, my work or my intellectual abilities in the past.
[ Like I said before I got only interested into them in April this year while doing casual staging cleanups and I'm not affiliated with any distribution vendor. ]
Thanks. -- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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