ar71xx support in mainline kernel?

[Dave Taht]

I am curious as to if anyone was working on getting the ar71xx arch and
drivers upstream?

It appears that the ath79 arch was intended to be the same thing, but has
nearly no users in the upstream kernel aside from two boards, and was last
worked on back in april...

the ar71xx patches in openwrt supports 43 boards at present and a
great deal of additional (and possibly duplicated) functionality.

http://nbd.name/gitweb.cgi?p=openwrt.git;a=tree;f=target/linux/ar71xx/files/arch/mips/ar71xx;h=878ba990e3b04c98e5e244011a82177e465f405a;hb=HEAD

So I'm curious as to what were the show-stoppers aside from the name change
and the huge backlog of boards and specialized devices?

(I see that the usb drivers are different, and I have no idea if the ag71xx
 ethernet driver is actually in there in some form under some name)

(msg somewhat triggered by seeing the drivers/net directory getting
re-organized in linux 3.2 and trying to hack in BQL on top of the
existing patchset)

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