ACX111-Chipset supported by NetworkManager?

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Thu Feb 16 18:45:42 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 11:50 -0600, Michael Favia wrote:
> Don Springall wrote:
> > Does the acx111 driver work with a 4 K stack  or do you need to 
> > re-compile with a 8 k stack ?
> 
> no kernel recompile required. i run ubuntu on a laptop with the card and 
> it runs 4kstacks iirc. if this becomes popular i might also release a 
> extras package for rt2x00 and rtl818x chipsets. im growing weary of lack 
> of support for wifi in fedora and while i understand (and agree with) 
> the policy of following upstream kernel drivers as closely as possible, 
> the situation isnt getting any better for the devices i use. hopefully 
> the increased testing and bug filing resulting from such an inclusion 
> will help motivate the developers to push towards kernel inclusion or 
> kernel developer to accept the modules which ever is the hold up. -mf

That's the way it gets done; if the driver maintainers aren't motivated
anyway, then the driver is certainly a pile of junk and shouldn't
upstreamed.  If, however, the driver maintainers are active and
responsible, the driver should gradually move towards upstreaming in the
kernel.  A driver won't get into the kernel until it has:

a) A maintainer who's willing to clean it up enough to submit it
b) A maintainer who's willing to make the changes that a peer-review at
kernel-submission time requires
c) is fairly stable for a large number of users

Note that Fedora Extras is going to get kernel module support in the
next couple of months as well, so that's a great place to put drivers
like this when that support rolls out.  In the end though, you want as
many drivers as possible in the kernel.

Dan





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