[arch] Abandoned rt2x00 package, possible to renew whole/part?

[Thomas Bächler]

Stanto schrieb:
> I'm interested in maintaining a package based upon the rt2x00-cvs hourly
> tarball supplied by rt2x00.
> 
> However I've noticed that the current rt2x00 in [unstable] has been
> abandoned with no maintainer.
> 
> According to the wiki, I shouldn't submit a package to AUR (even though
> I intended just an rt2500usb-cvs based package, a part of the rt2x00
> driver set) because it's contents, or similar, are already in [unstable].
> 
> What can I do about it because currently the rt2x00 package is outdated
> and flawed especially with regards to the the rt2500/2570usb adapters?

The problem is that rt2x00 is based on wireless-dev and there are no
backports to 2.6.22. Right now, it doesn't build with the 2.6.22 kernel,
so there is no point in updating it.

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