Trying to fix the MT7610U chipset driver by MediaTek so it's usable on modern Linux kernels and with nl80211/NetworkManager (and not completely breaking on old ones, maybe...)
Yeah, as already written: setting the highest possible mode per default (15?) and adding some module parameters.
The rest will be done by wpa_supplicant
In the cases where the config file is 0 bytes, there should still be a sane operation of the wireless adapter.