Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: delete driver

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 02:26:39PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> > Now that the same hardware that the r8188eu driver supported is
> > supported by the real wireless driver rtl8xxxu, the r8188eu driver can
> > be deleted.
> >
> > Also the rtl8xxxu driver supports way more devices, and is a fraction of
> > the overall size, making this a much better overall solution.
> >
> > Thanks to the r8188eu developers and maintainers and reviewers over the
> > years, your work allowed Linux users to use their hardware before the
> > real driver was implemented properly.
> >
> > Reported-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Martin Kaiser <martin@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Phillip Potter <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Thank you for doing this, I agree that this is the best solution
> moving forward:
> 
> Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>

Great!

Also, to verify the "these devices are supported", I compared the list
of module aliases exported by both drivers.  The r8188eu is a tiny
subset of the rtl8xxxu driver, with no devices listed in the r8188eu
that are not in the rtl8xxxu driver.

Attached are the lists of the vendor/product USB ids for each driver as
proof.

thanks,

greg k-h
v056Ep4008
v07B8p8179
v0B05p18F0
v0BDAp0179
v0BDAp8179
v0BDApFFEF
v0DF6p0076
v2001p330F
v2001p3310
v2001p3311
v2001p331B
v2357p010C
v2357p0111
v2C4Ep0102
v7392pB811
v04BBp094C
v04BBp0950
v04F2pAFF7
v04F2pAFF8
v04F2pAFF9
v04F2pAFFA
v04F2pAFFB
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v050Dp1004
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v056Ep4008
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v07AAp0056
v07B8p8178
v07B8p8179
v07B8p8189
v0846p9021
v0846p9041
v0846pF001
v0B05p17AB
v0B05p17BA
v0B05p18F0
v0BDAp0179
v0BDAp018A
v0BDAp0724
v0BDAp1724
v0BDAp1E1E
v0BDAp2E2E
v0BDAp317F
v0BDAp5088
v0BDAp8170
v0BDAp8176
v0BDAp8177
v0BDAp8178
v0BDAp8179
v0BDAp817A
v0BDAp817B
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v0BDAp817E
v0BDAp817F
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v0BDAp818B
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v0BDAp8191
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v0BDApB720
v0BDApF179
v0BDApFFEF
v0DF6p0052
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v0DF6p0070
v0DF6p0076
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v0EB0p9071
v103Cp1629
v1058p0631
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v2001p3307
v2001p3308
v2001p3309
v2001p330A
v2001p330B
v2001p330F
v2001p3310
v2001p3311
v2001p3319
v2001p331B
v2019p1201
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v2019pAB2B
v2019pAB2E
v2019pAB33
v2019pED17
v20F4p624D
v20F4p648B
v2357p0100
v2357p0107
v2357p0108
v2357p0109
v2357p010C
v2357p0111
v2C4Ep0102
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v4855p0091
v4856p0091
v7392p7811
v7392p7822
v7392pA611
v7392pB811
vCDABp8010