In search of HOSTAP MAINTAINERS - are you hiding?

Stefan gentoopower at yahoo.de
Fri Nov 4 17:11:37 EST 2005


Pavel Roskin wrote:

>Hello!
>
>On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 12:01 -0800, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
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>>ARE THERE ANY MAINTAINERS HERE?  AT ALL?
>>
>>I'm having serious but probably easily fixed (for the maintainers)
>>problems with hostap.  I can't upgrade from 2.6.12 to the 2.6.14
>>without breaking the hostap driver.  I'm not using exotic hardware,
>>it's just an old DWL-650 and a ThinkPad A30.
>>    
>>
>
>If you use so many capital letters in the subject, it would be
>reasonable to provide links your previous messages, so that the
>attention you have received is diverted from your feelings to your
>problem.  Also, it's often helpful to rephrase your question, add more
>details and show that you did some research.
>  
>
Yeah, it would be really helpful if you provided more info, instead of
saying that 2.6.14 breaks hostap driver.

What means breaking, doens't compile, no traffic from the card, no auth etc.

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>>I'm not asking for much, just a little clue on how to solve this.  If
>>you didn't want your driver used, why would you ignore bug reports,
>>and why would you seek inclusion in the mainstream Linux kernel?  If
>>you're not going to maintain this driver, why is this list address in
>>the kernel MAINTAINERS file?
>>    
>>
>
>Maintainers cannot always reply to every bug report.  They are
>responsible for development, not for support.  You may get better
>answers from people not listed in the MAINTAINERS file.
>
>I may be able to look at the hostap_pci issue, just not right now.
>
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