On Sat, Dec 06, 2014 at 09:06:29PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 04:38:16AM +0000, parths...@laer.in wrote: > > On 2014-12-06 17:51, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > >On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 09:54:29AM +0000, parths...@laer.in wrote: > > >>Hi again, > > >>Please note my new email parths...@laer.in . Also If you guys don't know > > >>there's a working source supplied by mediatek for mt7601. Please find > > >>the > > >>attached tarball. Also please apply this patch I mentioned about > > >>earlier. > > >>It's at https://gist.github.com/Boggartfly/b18bd86b8eb60fabe160 > > >> > > >>rt_linux.h has the following path in the driver directory. > > >> > > >>/include/os/rt_linux.h > > >> > > >>After you replace the patched file everything works and compiles > > >>successfully!! Any pointers on what should be done to make it kernel > > >>compatible? > > > > > >Let's wait to see if we have a "real" driver support working in the tree > > >soon before adding this huge driver to staging, where it will take a > > >long time to clean up and get merged "properly". > > > > > >thanks, > > > > > >greg k-h > > > > Hi Greg, > > I actually wanted to help out cleaning the driver but I have no idea where > > to start(my first patch, but I can code). What exactly do you mean by "real" > > support? If you know someone I could collaborate with them. I really want to > > help out, but I don't know what you're looking out for. Lemme know. > > Let's let the existing rt2x00 driver developers weigh in here. It might > just be a matter of adding support for the new device to the existing > driver, and if so, we don't want to add a whole new, horrible vendor > driver to the kernel tree. If it turns out it's a totally different > device that doesn't fit into the existing driver infrastructure, then we > can add the new driver and start from there. > > So let's hear what Stanislaw and Helmut say we should do first.
MT7601 is similar chip like those we already support in the existing rt2x00 driver, hence support of it should be added there. I'm going to do this. Stanislaw _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
