The future of ACX100/ACX111/TNETW1450 support in the kernel?

I'm using a AVM Fritz Wlan Stick of the first generation. This USB device has the TNETW1450 by Texas Instruments.
According to the ubuntu-wikipage this is one device that needs to be handled with ndiswrapper & the windows driver , because no kernel driver is available.

I searched around and came across http://acx100.sourceforge.net/ . This driver isnt merged obviously because of legal problems with the developing process.

In the LWN Article "Who wrote 2.6.37" ( http://lwn.net/Articles/420658/ ) i've seen the chipset manufacturer Texas instruments being ranked quite high up.

Are there plans to get official support for the chipsets ACX100/ACX111/TNETW1450 in the mainline tree one day, now that the manufacturer has started to work on linux-support? Will the legal issues be dealt with, so the sf-project can be included and the driver being worked on by more people than just 2 or 3 ?

Kassandra Drowner

JFYI: OpenWRT is maintaining acx-mac80211 (could not test on my Speedport-W701/AR7-router-plattform yet, using freetz).

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[1] https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/trunk/package/acx-mac80211
[2] http://acx100.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=acx100/acx-mac80211;a=summary