Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 19:51:03 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dingo project: acx(4) Message-ID: <42E30217.2030200@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <20050722225332.GV39292@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> References: <20050722225332.GV39292@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
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Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm not sure this is the right list to send this, but this is a kind of > fallback. > > While reading the FreeBSD status report, the Dingo part, I decided to > have a look at Dingo's goals to freshen up my memory. I saw that it > is planned to import the pff(4) driver. > > I would like to point to developpers that Darron Broad coded the acx(4) > driver for the chip which has the same name. The driver is an > interpretation of the corresponding Linux driver. It works for most > card for what I heard, except for those based on ACX111. > > I would like to know if it is an option to include his driver in the > source tree given that it's working well (the lastest version support > the new 80211 framework), and that it would be a pity if this driver > was forgotten and never really exploited, IMHO. > > http://wlan.kewl.org/ I'd like to see support for this in the tree too but it needs a committer to deal with support. We already have a number of drivers in the tree that are getting no support--despite having a committer supposedly watching over them. Sam
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