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

[Larry Finger]

On 7/22/21 7:42 PM, 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, branch v5.2.2.4. This series
> of patches therefore:
>
> (1) Removes the current driver from staging.
> (2) Imports the GitHub version mentioned above in its place.
>
> There is plenty of work to do to this driver, including to its Makefile,
> but it is at least buildable/usable for now.
>
> Phillip Potter (7):
>    staging: rtl8188eu: remove existing staging driver
>    staging: rtl8188eu: introduce new core dir for RTL8188eu driver
>    staging: rtl8188eu: introduce new hal dir for RTL8188eu driver
>    staging: rtl8188eu: introduce new os_dep dir for RTL8188eu driver
>    staging: rtl8188eu: introduce new include dir for RTL8188eu driver
>    staging: rtl8188eu: introduce new supporting files for RTL8188eu
>      driver
>    staging: rtl8188eu: attach newly imported driver to build system

Phillip,

Patch 3/7 fails with a
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/phydm_precomp.h: already exists in error:
working directory. When I deleted the file, the patch applied.

Patch 5/7 fails with a drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/include/hal_data.h: already 
exists in working directory. Again it applied when I manually deleted that file.

Patches 2-6 all have trailing whitespace warnings.

I have started testing. Unfortunately, my GitHub version has a fault in that it 
runs systemd-udevd at 100% of a CPU. So far, I have found that an older commit 
works fine. As soon as I find the fault, I will let you know.

Larry