[CFR]RT305xF support, w/o attachment
Aleksandr Rybalko
ray at dlink.ua
Mon Mar 21 09:29:19 UTC 2011
Hi,
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 07:04:22 +0100
Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On Monday 21 March 2011 00:16:01 Aleksandr Rybalko wrote:
>> > On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 05:59:45 +0800
>> > Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > > On 21 March 2011 04:28, Sergey V. Dyatko <sergey.dyatko at gmail.com>
>> > > wrote:
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > > Last patch from Aleksandr 'works fine for me', so... may be rt2860
>> > > > should be replaced to 'rt' for example ?
>> > > > rt0: flags= blah-blah-blah IHMO looks more .....nice(?) than
>> > > > rt28600: flags=
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > > Yup, that's a good idea. Aleksandr, can you please do that?
>> >
>> > Off-course I can, but seems better name will be rtw or rtn, because we
>> > already have if_rt (for RT3052 ether) which have iface name "rt".
>> >
>> > I think "rtn" is best.
>> >
>> > Maybe someone have better?
>>
>> rtw is a name for a Realtek driver.
Realtek driver called urtw, but I agree with you to avoid confusion.
>>
>> I'd prefer if can keep this driver in sync with the OpenBSD one where
>> it is clearly derived from. So, rt28xx and rt30xx support has to be an
>> extension to ral(4). That shouldn't be to hard to do, just throw in the
>> code into dev/ral/ and hook it to the pci/ops code.
This driver closer to USB run(4), but this use USB and difference still big.
In future, not so closer, I will try to join run, ral and my rt2860. But there is too much work and I need to find time for it.
>>
>> --
>> Bernhard
So for now, best name is "rtn".
If no objections, I send updated patch with new name.
Thank you Bernhard!
WBW
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Alexandr Rybalko <ray at dlink.ua>
aka Alex RAY <ray at ddteam.net>
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