[Prism54-devel] Prism54 Driver Project Complete

[Feyd]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 00:52:49 -0500
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@ruslug.rutgers.edu> wrote:

> 
> Kernel.org bk2 was the first bk snapshot with prism54 driver in it.
> bk4 is out already and some changes were already made too. 
> I was going to make some cvs repository changes today @ prism54.org
> in order to attempt to keep a synced up repository for development 
> but I realize this is just not going to be possible. You can't stop 
> what goes on in the kernel tree and keeping our repository in-sync 
> with the latest bk snapshots is just too much pain in the ass to even 
> consider we'd be able to work out of a prism54 tree and write valid 
> patches.
> 
> At this point I think we can safely say the the prism54 project has 
> been complete. Although forced upon, this is not necessarily 
> a bad thing. The 2.6 prism54 driver is just going to take a life of 
> its own now and its out of our hands what goes on with it.

This very tight sync with the kernel driver is not neccessary IMO, the
development can continue in similar way it been so far, syncing in both
directions when it makes sense. There is some experince gained around
the prism54.org, its the best public base for the development, retiring
is not an option ;)

> 
> As for USB support maybe now we can put this as high priority while
> other aspects of the driver are hammered by other developers. If you
> will like to still follow up on the latest on prism54 development,
> prism54.org will be the home for it. Just remember that it'd be just easier
> for you to work out of kernel.org bk snapshots when writing patches
> since we're no longer the home of the latest prism54 src.

In this highly development state it doesnt matter which driver is used
as the base, as long as people actively hacking on it will be able to
share their patches.

Im really excited by ability to sniff the USB traffic, it offers great
opportunity to improve even the PCI driver!

Feyd