On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Orcan Ogetbil<oget.fed...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:23 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: >>>> I was hoping that the devs who worked hard to even make it part of the >>>> source rpm might be lurking on this mailing list and see my post :) >>> >>> I don't think anything special is done to make it part of our >>> kernel .src.rpm, it's just in there because it's in the upstream kernel >>> tarball :). I don't _think_ any of the Fedora kernel devs will jump to >>> fix this driver. But hey, I'm happy if I'm wrong, I have an rt2860-based >>> card and it'd be nice not to have to rely on an out-of-tree, >>> not-in-Fedora driver! I'm almost sure you'd do better to contact lkml or >>> one of the main committers directly, though. >>> >>> Actually, now I look at it, it appears the driver is developed as part >>> of the serialmonkey project: >>> >>> http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page >>> >>> which has links in the blue bar at the top for 'lists' and 'forum'. >>> Those sound like good places to poke. >> >> Good luck with that! This driver has been in the process of being >> re-written for well over a year, I've long given up hope. Its >> unfortunate as its in alot of netbooks including all the atom based >> eeePCs. Fortunately rpmfusion has one that works reasonably well (it >> even suspends and resumes!) appart from spewing massive amount of >> debug into /var/log/messages (if left on about half a gig a day). >> >> Peter >> > > I maintain those drivers at RPMFusion. I will be happy beyond > imagination when the staging drivers are marked stable.
They won't ever (the rtxxxx Vendor drivers) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
