[Madwifi-devel] Backporting - support for AR2417 (Nala)

[Jaromír Cápík]

[Pavel Roskin]

Hello guys.
My question might be funny ...
Is anybody still working on this driver?

I make some occasional commits. But there is no real development,
it's mostly bug fixing.

Is it possible to ask any of You to backport
a support for AR2417 (Nala) from ath5k to MadWifi?
I need MadWifi drivers for my distribution targeted
to very old computers. It's based on the latest 2.4
series kernel (2.4.37.11) and thus I need Madwifi.

I don't have the hardware to test it. It's unrealistic to expect
support for a new chip to work without any testing.

If you want to backport it, I suggest that you use FreeBSD ath driver
as the starting point. FreeBSD uses the Atheros HAL, whereas ath5k
used OpenHAL from OpenBSD as the starting point, and deviated from
that a lot. It's structured very differently from the Atheros HAL.

The FreeBSD driver can be checked out by:

svn co http://svn.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/dev/ath/ ath

Look for commits you need and try to backport them. Looking at the
code, there are many references to AR2417, so I assume it's supported.

[Jaromír Cápík]

Hello Pavel.

Thanks for the tips ....
I'll try to do the backport by myself.
If I succeed, who can I ask for the commit rights?

Thanks,
Jaromir.

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Předmět: Re: [Madwifi-devel] Backporting - support for AR2417 (Nala)
Datum: 03.8.2011 23:52:18
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Hello guys.
My question might be funny ...
Is anybody still working on this driver?

I make some occasional commits. But there is no real development,
it's mostly bug fixing.

Is it possible to ask any of You to backport
a support for AR2417 (Nala) from ath5k to MadWifi?
I need MadWifi drivers for my distribution targeted
to very old computers. It's based on the latest 2.4
series kernel (2.4.37.11) and thus I need Madwifi.

I don't have the hardware to test it. It's unrealistic to expect
support for a new chip to work without any testing.
If you want to backport it, I suggest that you use FreeBSD ath driver
as the starting point. FreeBSD uses the Atheros HAL, whereas ath5k
used OpenHAL from OpenBSD as the starting point, and deviated from
that a lot. It's structured very differently from the Atheros HAL.
svn co http://svn.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/dev/ath/ ath
Look for commits you need and try to backport them. Looking at the
code, there are many references to AR2417, so I assume it's supported.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

[Pavel Roskin]

Post by Jaromír Cápík
Hello Pavel.
Thanks for the tips ....I'll try to do the backport by myself.
If I succeed, who can I ask for the commit rights?

Just post your patches to this list.