Mainline Builds enables Staging

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Karl Relton
<karllinuxtest.relton at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>> It has been sensibly suggested that we should be enabling the staging
>> portion of the upstream kernels as we use some staging drivers in
>> Ubuntu, and because a valid use case is testing those drivers in
>> advance
>> of them being enabled for Ubuntu.
>>
>> To this end the Mainline kernel builds from v2.6.30-rc5 onwards have
>> CONFIG_STAGING enabled.  At the moment we are accepting the default
>> setting for each of the drivers within staging.  Based on the
>> (possibly
>> nieve) assumption that drivers which are in a compilable state are
>> enabled by default and those which are dodgy are not.  This has
>> enabled
>> about 6 of the drivers in staging at this time.
>>
>
> Great.
>
> Note that in mainline there are now two versions of the driver for
> at76c50x usb wireless cards: net/wireless/at76c50x-usb and
> staging/at76_usb. My testing shows that there are still problems with
> the former, while the latter staging driver (the older of the two) is
> okay.
>
> Therefore I would recommend sticking with the staging version (as used
> in Jaunty) for the time being.

Please disable otus, ar9170 is now a recent replacement. TX
aggregation is yet to be completed but I rather see bug reports for
ar9170 than anything about otus. I'll soon be asking greg to rm -rf
otus as well.

  Luis