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>

diff --git a/drivers/staging/otus/TODO b/drivers/staging/otus/TODO
index e912293..4caf026 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/staging/otus/TODO
+++ b/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

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rt2860/TODO b/drivers/staging/rt2860/TODO
index 2f70b0f..6158dc2 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/staging/rt2860/TODO
+++ b/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
 

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rt2870/TODO b/drivers/staging/rt2870/TODO
index eae1ac4..2df1bfe 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/staging/rt2870/TODO
+++ b/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
 

diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/README b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/README
index 9c10dbb..028c299 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/README
+++ b/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.