[KARMIC] review these for rt2x00 (adds rt2800pci)

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Stefan Bader<stefan.bader at canonical.com> wrote:
> Ivo Van Doorn wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez<mcgrof at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Stefan Bader<stefan.bader at canonical.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> At least this seems to be material for 3 or 4 patches
>>>> - adapt the rfkill stuff
>>>> - some documentation update
>>>> - add the new pci version of the 2800 (with that rt2x00soc lib
>>>>  which might be another patch)
>>>> - and some fixes...
>>>
>>> Not only that but this driver is not yet merged upstream, there should
>>> be a good reason for that.
>>>
>>> Ivo, what's the status on rt2800pci? Some users have been asking about
>>> it.
>>
>> The status is that it is not functioning correctly, during boot it
>> will print out
>> tons of errors about the device not being ready, and afterward it cannot
>> scan,
>> connect or do anything useful.
>>
>> And I think those problems can be considered enough reasons for not
>> merging
>> the driver upstream yet. ;)
>>
>> Ivo
>
> I would say so. :) Assuming there is a bit of truth in those claims of that
> tarball working better than the current kernel code, we might take away all
> the new driver bloat and see what remains (which might be the part Ivo has
> anyways in wireless testing...)

Its not part of wireless-testing.

 Luis