Re: Dingo project: acx(4)

Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm not sure this is the right list to send this, but this is a kind of
> fallback.
> 
> While reading the FreeBSD status report, the Dingo part, I decided to
> have a look at Dingo's goals to freshen up my memory.  I saw that it
> is planned to import the pff(4) driver.
> 
> I would like to point to developpers that Darron Broad coded the acx(4)
> driver for the chip which has the same name.  The driver is an
> interpretation of the corresponding Linux driver.  It works for most
> card for what I heard, except for those based on ACX111.
> 
> I would like to know if it is an option to include his driver in the
> source tree given that it's working well (the lastest version support
> the new 80211 framework), and that it would be a pity if this driver
> was forgotten and never really exploited, IMHO.
> 
> http://wlan.kewl.org/

I'd like to see support for this in the tree too but it needs a 
committer to deal with support.  We already have a number of drivers in 
the tree that are getting no support--despite having a committer 
supposedly watching over them.

	Sam