is wifi-driver developed anymore?

[Paul Fertser]

Ben Thompson <ben at thompson.org.uk> writes:
> 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.
>
> Does anyone know whether an answer to this ever came back from
> Atheros?

Basically, Luis told several times he's trying to push it internally
but it looks like he got nowhere.

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