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

[Larry Finger]

On 7/27/21 8:47 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 02:25:34PM +0100, Phillip Potter wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 at 14:06, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > Dear Greg,
> >
> > I'm confused - v3 patchset builds fine for me after applying in
> > sequence from 1 to 7?
>
> Why does kbuild report problems?
>
> Anyway, please let's just add the new driver in a new directory, get it
> building, and then we can remove the old one.  That way patches will
> continue to work and there's no confusion when backporting patches as
> the code bases are different.

I get no kbuild problems in the staging-next branch. I have no idea why the test 
robot is reporting errors.

Keeping the old rtl8188eu directory and builds will result in 3 drivers 
competing for the hardware including rtl8xxxu, rtl8188eu, and r8188eu.

Larry