Re: [PATCH 00/12] rtlwifi: rtl8192se: Merge new driver
From: Larry Finger
Date: Tue May 03 2011 - 16:58:15 EST
On 05/03/2011 03:38 PM, Gábor Stefanik wrote:
2011/5/3 Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
On 05/03/2011 03:19 PM, Gábor Stefanik wrote:
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On 05/03/2011 10:59 AM, Walter Goldens wrote:
This set of patches introduces a driver for the RTL8192SE PCI devices.
Any estimates on the *SU driver? :)
Now that rtl8192se is submitted, I will start work on the driver for the
RTL8192DE devices. After that will be the RTL8191SU. It has lower
priority
because r8712u from staging handles those devices. It is not based on
mac80211, but it works.
Again, may I remind you that the preferred behavior in the Linux world
is release-early, release-often? :-)
That I know, but "code first" still applies. If the comparison between
rtl8192ce and rtl8192cu has any validity for the rtl8192s varieties, roughly
half of this driver will be shared. In addition, we do have all the USB
plumbing in place, but we are still talking about a few thousand lines of
code. At last contact, Realtek has no interest in this project, thus I will
be on my own.
Larry
I do not mean immediately submitting everything for inclusion -
however, a publicly accessible Git tree would be nice. A non-rtlwifi,
badly coded but functional and GPL-compatible driver is still better
than having to use ndiswrapper/load a binary blob.
We are in better shape than having to use ndiswrapper or any non-GPL code. The
r8712u driver in staging is for the RTL8192SU, and it works perfectly well. It
just doesn't use mac80211, which is why it needs to be replaced.
Larry
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