On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 10:07:10AM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > -=| Ben Hutchings, Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 11:16:27PM +0100 |=- > > On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 22:08 +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > > > Package: wnpp > > > Severity: wishlist > > > Owner: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org> > > > > > > * Package name : rt2860-source > > > Version : 1.7.0.0 > > > Upstream Author : Ralink Tech Inc > > > * URL : http://www.ralinktech.com/ > > > * License : GPL-2+ some binary non-free firmware > > > Programming Lang: C > > > Description : source for RT2860 wireless adapter kernel module > > > > > > RT2860 is a wireless adapter found particularly in the ASUS EeePC model > > > 901 and above. The package contains the source of a Linux kernel module > > > for it. > > > > Would you like to include this in the pkg-ralink project on Alioth? > > It is currently under debian-eeepc Git[1], but I find what you say > very attractive, especially if it is extended a bit: > > [1] http://git.debian.org/?p=debian-eeepc/rt2860.git;a=summary > > Would you like to take over the package? I'd gladly put it in the > hands of people having experience dealing with ralink-based cards. I don't have any of the hardware this supports, or any 802.11n access point I could test against (though maybe other maintainers do). There would need to be someone in the team to take responsibility for that. But the Ralink drivers have a lot in common (bugs, terrible coding style...) so I should at least have some familiarity with the code. <snip> > > > Perhaps the module can be changed to load its firmware from > > > external > > > file or even not need that nasty firmware.h (there are traces of > > > support to other hardware and that firmware may be for them). > > > > This should not be too hard. Look at rt73 for an example of how > > this has been done in an existing Ralink driver. > > Moving the firmware away would also make it possible for a -modules > package to be made part of linux-modules-extra, right? That would be a > good thing. As it is, it could be built by linux-modules-nonfree-2.6. Separate the firmware and the module can be built by linux-modules-contrib-2.6. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. - Harrison
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