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Atheros originally had posted a vendor driver to support
the Atheros AR9170 devices, the driver was called otus [1].
The otus driver was staging quality but it, along with
other chipset documentation helped the community do a rewrite
for a proper driver. Johannes Berg did the ar9170 [2] work and
Christian Lamparter then followed up with some final touches
for inclusion upstream.
The original goal behind ar9170 was to match all functionality,
performance, stability and quality against Otus. In the end this
proved quite challenging even with GPLv2 firmware.
Christian then decided to work on a replacement driver with
new enhancements to the GPLv2 firmware. It took 1 year, 5 months,
9 days since this merge of ar9170usb upstream to release carl9170
with upstream inclusion intentions but its now there.
We remove the Otus driver now as the carl9170 driver actually
ends up not only replacing but superseding the staging Otus driver!
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/otus
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ar9170
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/carl9170
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 12:02 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> this driver is unmaintained and its only purpose is as a
> source of documentation for developers working on ar9170 and carl9170.
> Once carl9170 gets 11n support and merged upstream then this driver
> can be removed.
Then the TODO file should be updated.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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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>
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Initial dump of the otus USB wireless network driver.
It builds properly, but a lot of work needs to be done cleaning
it up before it can be merged into the wireless driver tree.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Luis R. Rodriguez
Joe Perches
Greg Kroah-Hartman