On 2/11/07, Kumba <kumba@g.o> wrote:

> Yeah, milang == onion.  He's done this not only for Extreme's console driver,
> but also a semi-working O2 sound driver.  In both cases, he's either claimed
> that his code quality is poor, or his girlfriend was taking up too much time, or
> some other lame excuse.  Even when we randomly nag him on #mipslinux on IRC, he
> just ignores us now :P
>
> This is why for O2's driver, we've just randomly tinker with the only known
> source code version.  Another linux-mips dev, Ladislav Michel (I think) of
> debian apparently also has/had a driver at one point for early 2.6.  But I don't
> know if it's the same as the source one already out there (which was written by
> a "vivian", if I recall correctly), or if his is related to onion's purported
> driver at all.
>
>
>
> --Kumba

the "vivian" you mention is actually vivien aka glaurung... the
address for her site where her patches can be found is
http://www.linux-mips.org/~glaurung/

but I'm not enough of a kernel dude to check if there is indeed the
needed patch there...

hope this helps someone out there... :)

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