From 4e9bf410dc6006e95aba512272747bc8f30e7a20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:44:31 +0100 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/rt2870/TODO | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers/staging/rt2870') diff --git a/drivers/staging/rt2870/TODO b/drivers/staging/rt2870/TODO index eae1ac47d3f..2df1bfed9a5 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rt2870/TODO +++ b/drivers/staging/rt2870/TODO @@ -1,7 +1,14 @@ +I'm hesitant to add a TODO file here, as the wireless developers would +really have people help them out on the "clean" rt2870 driver that can +be found at the http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/ site. + +But, if you wish to clean up this driver instead, here's a short list of +things that need to be done to get it into a more mergable shape: + TODO: - checkpatch.pl clean - sparse clean - - port to in-kernel 80211 stack + - port to in-kernel 80211 stack and common rt2x00 infrastructure - remove reading from /etc/ config files - review by the wireless developer community -- cgit v1.2.3