On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:26:36AM +0400, Paul Fertser wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:48:38PM +0900, Harald Welte wrote:
> > isn't that the ideal candidate for greg-kh's experimental driver tree? He > > says > > he accepts anything that compiles and is GPL licensed... > Harald, i hope you know that Werner did a tremendous work trying to improve > wifi reliability for us, 15000 freerunner users. He came to conclusion that > even when somebody at least as brave as Hercules (it requires quite some > courage to deal with large amounts of shit) will "fix" or "rewrite the > relevant portions of" ar6000 driver we'd be still SOL due to the firmware > bugs. What bothered him most is the fact firmware halted on any assert() > because it was compiled with debug options on. Getting the driver into staging is probably still a good idea - even if you can't fix the firmware bugs it'll help everyone with the hardware pool their efforts.