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staging: document that the wifi staging drivers a bit better

The Linux wireless developers don't want to hear anything about the
staging wireless drivers, for a wide range of miopic reasons.

The following patch, based on a patch from Johannes Berg, tries to
document this issue a bit better.

Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Greg Kroah-Hartman 16 жил өмнө
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+ 8 - 1
drivers/staging/otus/TODO

@@ -1,8 +1,15 @@
+I'm hesitant to add a TODO file here, as the wireless developers would
+really have people help them out on the "clean" ar9170 driver that can
+be found at the linux-wireless developer site.
+
+But, if you wish to clean up this driver instead, here's a short list of
+things that need to be done to get it into a more mergable shape:
+
 TODO:
 TODO:
 	- checkpatch.pl cleanups
 	- checkpatch.pl cleanups
 	- sparse cleanups
 	- sparse cleanups
 	- port to in-kernel 80211 stack
 	- port to in-kernel 80211 stack
-	- proper network developer maintainer
+	- review by the wireless developer community
 
 
 Please send any patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> and
 Please send any patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> and
 Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@Atheros.com> and the
 Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@Atheros.com> and the

+ 2 - 2
drivers/staging/rt2860/TODO

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 I'm hesitant to add a TODO file here, as the wireless developers would
 I'm hesitant to add a TODO file here, as the wireless developers would
 really have people help them out on the "clean" rt2860 driver that can
 really have people help them out on the "clean" rt2860 driver that can
-be found at the rt2860.sf.net site.
+be found at the http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/ site.
 
 
 But, if you wish to clean up this driver instead, here's a short list of
 But, if you wish to clean up this driver instead, here's a short list of
 things that need to be done to get it into a more mergable shape:
 things that need to be done to get it into a more mergable shape:
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ things that need to be done to get it into a more mergable shape:
 TODO:
 TODO:
 	- checkpatch.pl clean
 	- checkpatch.pl clean
 	- sparse clean
 	- sparse clean
-	- port to in-kernel 80211 stack
+	- port to in-kernel 80211 stack and common rt2x00 infrastructure
 	- remove reading from /etc/ config files
 	- remove reading from /etc/ config files
 	- review by the wireless developer community
 	- review by the wireless developer community
 
 

+ 8 - 1
drivers/staging/rt2870/TODO

@@ -1,7 +1,14 @@
+I'm hesitant to add a TODO file here, as the wireless developers would
+really have people help them out on the "clean" rt2870 driver that can
+be found at the http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/ site.
+
+But, if you wish to clean up this driver instead, here's a short list of
+things that need to be done to get it into a more mergable shape:
+
 TODO:
 TODO:
 	- checkpatch.pl clean
 	- checkpatch.pl clean
 	- sparse clean
 	- sparse clean
-	- port to in-kernel 80211 stack
+	- port to in-kernel 80211 stack and common rt2x00 infrastructure
 	- remove reading from /etc/ config files
 	- remove reading from /etc/ config files
 	- review by the wireless developer community
 	- review by the wireless developer community
 
 

+ 3 - 1
drivers/staging/wlan-ng/README

@@ -4,4 +4,6 @@ TODO:
 	- Lindent cleanups
 	- Lindent cleanups
 	- move to use the in-kernel wireless stack
 	- move to use the in-kernel wireless stack
 
 
-Please send all patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
+Please send any patches or complaints about this driver to Greg
+Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> and don't bother the upstream wireless
+kernel developers about it, they want nothing to do with it.