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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 years ago
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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:
 	- checkpatch.pl cleanups
 	- sparse cleanups
 	- 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
 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
 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
 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:
 	- checkpatch.pl 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
 	- 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:
 	- checkpatch.pl 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
 	- review by the wireless developer community
 

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

@@ -4,4 +4,6 @@ TODO:
 	- Lindent cleanups
 	- 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.