Hi Marco,
The following patches has to be applied on top of 857 ones I sent, here is also included the merge with Dan's changes in the repository. After all this ft857 can pass the run_test.
Thanks! I did some work on the tests to handle radios that use cross mode so that you could get the ft857 to pass :)
Note that it's very unconventional to send a merge changeset like this to a maintainer in email. Since my tree already has those changes, it won't apply for me. This is because you're committing changes directly to your tree and pulling from the repository, which is fine but has this other little snag.
When you do your "hg email" you should just skip the merge changeset. If the merge was non-trivial, then you really should rebase your patches on top of the current tree. The "mq" extension to hg makes this really easy to do.
Anyway, I'll fix and apply these patches as they are this time. Are we confident that the 857 driver is ready? I haven't seen a report from anyone else (David?) that they have been successful and I don't have an 857 to test with.
Thanks!