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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 0/7] staging: rtl8188eu: replace driver with better version
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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@linuxfoundation.org> 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

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