Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] staging: rtl8188eu: replace driver with better version

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Jul 27 2021 - 09:06:37 EST


On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 01:10:48AM +0100, Phillip Potter wrote:
> I had to break this patchset up a bit to get around the file size limits
> on the mailing list, and also I removed the hostapd stuff which is
> userspace related and therefore not required.
>
> The driver currently in staging is older and less functional than the
> version on Larry Finger's GitHub account, based upon v4.1.4_6773.20130222.
> This series of patches therefore:
>
> (1) Removes the current driver from staging.
> (2) Imports the GitHub version mentioned above in its place.

Let's do (2) first before worrying about (1), given that we can't get a
version of (2) that actually builds yet :)

thanks,

greg k-h