[Bug 324] New: rt3070-kmod: Kernel module for wireless devices with Ralink's rt307x chipsets

[RPM Fusion Bugzilla]

http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324

           Summary: rt3070-kmod: Kernel module for wireless devices with
                    Ralink's rt307x chipsets
           Product: Package Reviews
           Version: Current
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: GNU/Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P5
         Component: Review Request
        AssignedTo: rpmfusion-package-review at rpmfusion.org
        ReportedBy: oget.fedora at gmail.com
                CC: rpmfusion-package-review at rpmfusion.org
            Blocks: 2
   Estimated Hours: 0.0


kmod:
SPEC: http://oget.fedorapeople.org/review/rt3070-kmod.spec
SRPM: http://oget.fedorapeople.org/review/rt3070-kmod-2.0.1.0-1.fc10.src.rpm

common:
SPEC: http://oget.fedorapeople.org/review/rt3070.spec
SRPM: http://oget.fedorapeople.org/review/rt3070-2.0.1.0-1.fc10.src.rpm

rpmlint:
W: no-documentation
Docs are in common package

W: summary-not-capitalized rt3070 kernel module(s) for 2.6.27.9-73.fc9.x86_64
That is because the module name is not capitalized itself (consistent with
rt28x0 packages)

W: unstripped-binary-or-object rt3070sta.ko
can be ignored

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This is my candidate for the crappiest Linux driver ever created. They
basically took the rt2870 driver and modified it to support rt3070. There is
nothing wrong for them with stealing their own code. But there were a few
issues that I had to solve:

- For some reason they took an older rt2870 driver version and modified it.
Hence the driver will not compile for Fedora kernels 2.6.25 and newer. So I had
the re-introduce our iwe-stream patch.

- They did not even bother to change the filenames or variable names in the
code. The code says "rt2870" but it actually means "rt3070". Confusing. I had
to rename the RT2870STA.DAT file to  RT3070STA.DAT to avoid conflicts with our
rt2870 kmod.

Other than these two things, both the common and the kmod package is identical
to our rt2870 packages in rpmfusion.


I admit that this package is crap. But still, there might be people who can
benefit from it.


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