Messages in this thread | | | From | Gábor Stefanik <> | Date | Tue, 3 May 2011 22:38:52 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/12] rtlwifi: rtl8192se: Merge new driver |
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2011/5/3 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>: > On 05/03/2011 03:19 PM, Gábor Stefanik wrote: >> >> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> >> 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.
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