is wifi-driver developed anymore?

[Ben Thompson]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 09:46:38AM +0400, Paul Fertser wrote:
> >> I tell you the most nasty bugs are in firmware. Which we don't have
> >> sources for and don't know a way to update anyway. Blame Atheros.
> >
> > please may you elaborate a bit more?
> > How kernel ops are related to ar6000 firmware bugs?
> 
> It's hard to be motivated to basically rewrite the driver if you know
> that the nastiest bugs will still be there. BTW, i have a "fix" for
> the bind/unbind problem, but not for the "ioctls to the device which
> is down".
> 
> The driver was bad and now it's even in worse condition because of all
> the tweaking. Solving one race condition results in exposing
> another. The addition of rfkill support multiplied the possibilities
> even further...
> 
> Currently (great thanks to Harald!) we're waiting another answer from
> Atheros but do not hold your breath.

Hi

Does anyone know whether an answer to this ever came back from
Atheros?

Ben