From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 24 02:50:31 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D098016A41F for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 02:50:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [66.127.85.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2923143D46 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2005 02:50:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from [66.127.85.94] ([66.127.85.94]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id j6O2oSms053105 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 23 Jul 2005 19:50:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Message-ID: <42E30217.2030200@errno.com> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 19:51:03 -0700 From: Sam Leffler Organization: Errno Consulting User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Macintosh/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremie Le Hen References: <20050722225332.GV39292@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> In-Reply-To: <20050722225332.GV39292@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dingo project: acx(4) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 02:50:31 -0000 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