RE: [zd1211-devs] Re: From ZyDAS

[Jose P. <jos...@al...>]

Hi Albert,

> 
> I wouldn't hold my breath for hard work of QA at ZyDAS ;-) 
> You can take a look at the source code and see for yourself... 
> 
> But you brought up an important point (IMHO) on future 
> directions of this project. There's a decision needs to be 
> made on how to react on current (and possibly future) code 
> releases from ZyDAS. 
> 
> I didn't check 1.4.0.0 yet, but 1.2.7.0 looks like a definite 
> improvement over last year releases. With a few tweaks and a 
> couple of fixes releated to alignment (already in CVS), now 
> 128b WEP shared key auth works for me on ARM LE platform. 
> There're still a few issues exist, but no show stoppers. I'll 
> test it for a couple of days under load before making a final 
> judgement, thou. 
> 
> If anyone interested, I can import 1.2.7.0 with some fixes 
> and a few different firmware versions into CVS. I didn't 
> merge WPA from 1.4.0.0 and BE fixes from CVS yet since I 
> don't need both, but I can do it if there's interest. We can 
> create a separate branch for 1.2.7.0 release and try to keep 
> it as close as possible to original ZyDAS code (i.e. no 
> reformating, blanks, ident, comments, etc) which should make 
> it easier to merge future releases from ZyDAS. The curent CVS 
> code was heavily cleaned up which could be a pain in the butt 
> for merging.  -albertr
> 

I have also working in ARM LE platform, so I'll appreciate your fix for
aligment and all you have
change to make 1.2.7.0 version to work for ARM. 

about a cvs version with 1.2.7.0 it can be confused for people, so it'd
be interested some README.1ST
in order to explain all of this.

In order to merge 1.4.0.0 version to 1.2.7.0 it's in my planning I hope
very soon, If you can work in
add differences (new ioctls in order to support wpa_supplicant zd1211
driver) from 1.4.0.0 to 1.2.7.0 
it'll be welcome. ;-)

In order to avoid confusion in number version we can create a format
like this (1.2.7.0 - sf-1.0)?
or perhaps 1.2.7.0-1.4.0.0 <-> sf-1.0.?
or create a new number from the stratch mentioning zydas version
correspondence.?

anyway, I think if zd1211-sf project is working in NG version zydas
version will be interesting 
in order to resolved/compare implementatios posible unresolved bugs
during NG development.

It's very posible zydas guys don't work for ever in zd1211 linux driver
(f.e. they don't want to port zd1211 to future kernel version), so it'll
be better sf group going on with their job and think in Zydas source 
as posible information where to look inside searching for tricks,
undocumented registers, ...

regards.