Driver for the ar5523 chipset

Some time ago I found an old USB wireless dongle in my drawer. I was
surprised it wasn't supported in Linux. Google gave me an old
unfinished driver created by Christoph Hellwig. Armed with some
spare time and naivity I picked up where Christoph left in 2007 and
now it's actually working pretty fine. It does not crash for me and
throughput is decent.

It's based on the FreeBSD driver, which in turn is based on the
reverse engineered Windows driver, hence a very limited feature set.
Not even HW crypto offload is supported. But at least there is a
firmware which has a suitable license:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/contrib/dev...

Pontus Fuchs (4):
  ar5523: Add main driver file
  ar5523: Add driver header file
  ar5523: Add Firmware API header file
  ar5523: Add Kconfig and Makefile

 drivers/staging/Kconfig            |    2 +
 drivers/staging/Makefile           |    1 +
 drivers/staging/ar5523/Kconfig     |    7 +
 drivers/staging/ar5523/Makefile    |    1 +
 drivers/staging/ar5523/ar5523.c    | 1824 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/staging/ar5523/ar5523.h    |  164 ++++
 drivers/staging/ar5523/ar5523_hw.h |  447 +++++++++
 7 files changed, 2446 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 drivers/staging/ar5523/Kconfig
 create mode 100644 drivers/staging/ar5523/Makefile
 create mode 100644 drivers/staging/ar5523/ar5523.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/staging/ar5523/ar5523.h
 create mode 100644 drivers/staging/ar5523/ar5523_hw.h

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