Re: rt2860 driver (fc11)

2009-08-07 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 15:20 -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote: > On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 08:15:59PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > > >> > I had the same confusion. So there are 3 drivers around: The vendor > > >> > driver, the staging driver which is a fork of the vendor driver and > > >> > the serialmonk

Re: rt2860 driver (fc11)

2009-08-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/07/2009 12:31 AM, Kyle McMartin wrote: >> > > No we haven't, we've stated that they'll be enabled if someone steps up > to the plate to make an active contribution to maintenance and > improvements. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelStagingPolicy Much appreciated. Insight into why

Re: rt2860 driver (fc11)

2009-08-06 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 08:15:59PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > >> > I had the same confusion. So there are 3 drivers around: The vendor > >> > driver, the staging driver which is a fork of the vendor driver and > >> > the serialmonkey driver.  Multiply that by 3 for rt2860, rt2870 and > >> > rt3

Re: rt2860 driver (fc11)

2009-08-06 Thread Peter Robinson
>> > I had the same confusion. So there are 3 drivers around: The vendor >> > driver, the staging driver which is a fork of the vendor driver and >> > the serialmonkey driver.  Multiply that by 3 for rt2860, rt2870 and >> > rt3070. And this leads to another confusion. Do (or will) the Fedora >> > k

Re: rt2860 driver (fc11)

2009-08-06 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 07:52:43PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > >> Thanks for the clarification. From what I read, I inferred that the > >> driver in /staging was the serialmonkey driver, but it seems I read it > >> wrong, and what it actually means to say was 'this is the vendor driver, > >> it

Re: rt2860 driver (fc11)

2009-08-06 Thread Peter Robinson
>> Thanks for the clarification. From what I read, I inferred that the >> driver in /staging was the serialmonkey driver, but it seems I read it >> wrong, and what it actually means to say was 'this is the vendor driver, >> it sucks, don't contribute any code to this driver, contribute to the >> se

Re: rt2860 driver (fc11)

2009-08-06 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 11:34 +0200, drago01 wrote: > >> > I'm not quite sure if I could catch what you meant. Are you being >> > sarcastic, implying that the rt2xxx staging drivers will stay in the >> > staging repo forever? I sure hope not :)

Re: rt2860 driver (fc11)

2009-08-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 11:34 +0200, drago01 wrote: > > I'm not quite sure if I could catch what you meant. Are you being > > sarcastic, implying that the rt2xxx staging drivers will stay in the > > staging repo forever? I sure hope not :) Hey! Don't break my hopes! > > The rt vendor drivers ar

Re: rt2860 driver (fc11)

2009-08-06 Thread John W. Linville
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 05:14:01AM -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:58 AM, drago01 wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > >> > >> I maintain those drivers at RPMFusion. I will be happy beyond > >> imagination when the staging drivers are marked stab

Re: rt2860 driver (fc11)

2009-08-06 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 06.08.2009 11:34, drago01 wrote: > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:58 AM, drago01 wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: I maintain those drivers at RPMFusion. I will be happy beyond imagination when the stagin

Re: rt2860 driver (fc11)

2009-08-06 Thread drago01
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:58 AM, drago01 wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >>> >>> I maintain those drivers at RPMFusion. I will be happy beyond >>> imagination when the staging drivers are marked stable. >> >> The

Re: rt2860 driver (fc11)

2009-08-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/06/2009 02:44 PM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:58 AM, drago01 wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >>> >>> I maintain those drivers at RPMFusion. I will be happy beyond >>> imagination when the staging drivers are marked stable. >> >> They won't e

Re: rt2860 driver (fc11)

2009-08-06 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:58 AM, drago01 wrote: > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >> >> I maintain those drivers at RPMFusion. I will be happy beyond >> imagination when the staging drivers are marked stable. > > They won't ever (the rt Vendor drivers) > >From my understan

Re: rt2860 driver (fc11)

2009-08-06 Thread Peter Robinson
>> 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 r

Re: rt2860 driver (fc11)

2009-08-06 Thread drago01
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Orcan Ogetbil 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

Re: rt2860 driver (fc11)

2009-08-06 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
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

Re: rt2860 driver (fc11)

2009-08-06 Thread Peter Robinson
>> 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 :).

Re: rt2860 driver (fc11)

2009-08-06 Thread drago01
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 23:50 -0700, Markus Kesaromous 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

Re: rt2860 driver (fc11)

2009-08-06 Thread Conrad Meyer
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 11:48:05 pm Markus Kesaromous wrote: > I compiled the kernel without SMP support deliberately. > It is a user configurable option. If you're not using a Fedora kernel the appropriate place to complain / discuss is the LKML, not here. Even if it was a Fedora kernel, th

RE: rt2860 driver (fc11)

2009-08-06 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 23:50 -0700, Markus Kesaromous 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 t

RE: rt2860 driver (fc11)

2009-08-05 Thread Markus Kesaromous
> From: awill...@redhat.com > To: fedora-devel-list@redhat.com > Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 23:27:32 -0700 > Subject: Re: rt2860 driver (fc11) > > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 21:58 -0700, Markus Kesaromous wrote: >> I know this is a stagi

RE: rt2860 driver (fc11)

2009-08-05 Thread Markus Kesaromous
> From: ceme...@u.washington.edu > To: fedora-devel-list@redhat.com > Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 23:17:12 -0700 > Subject: Re: rt2860 driver (fc11) > > On Wednesday 05 August 2009 09:58:44 pm Markus Kesaromous wrote: >> I know th

Re: rt2860 driver (fc11)

2009-08-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 21:58 -0700, Markus Kesaromous wrote: > I know this is a staging and thus experimental driver. > I only wanted to point out that if you compile the kernl > without SMP support, then this driver module will have these > undefined symbols: > > spin_lock_bh > _per_cpu_offset >

Re: rt2860 driver (fc11)

2009-08-05 Thread Conrad Meyer
On Wednesday 05 August 2009 09:58:44 pm Markus Kesaromous wrote: > I know this is a staging and thus experimental driver. > I only wanted to point out that if you compile the kernl > without SMP support, then this driver module will have these > undefined symbols: Which Fedora kernels are compiled

rt2860 driver (fc11)

2009-08-05 Thread Markus Kesaromous
I know this is a staging and thus experimental driver. I only wanted to point out that if you compile the kernl without SMP support, then this driver module will have these undefined symbols: spin_lock_bh _per_cpu_offset synchronize_irq spin_unlock_irqrestore del_timer_sync spin_lock_irqsave I