Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Jul 2021 16:00:04 +0200 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 0/6] staging: r8188eu: add newer/better RTL8188eu driver |
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On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 03:37:30PM +0200, Martin Kaiser wrote: > Hi Phil and all, > > Thus wrote Phillip Potter (phil@philpotter.co.uk): > > > I see what you are saying for sure - I think we've both sunk a fair > > few patches into the existing driver :-) > > > That said, from what Larry has mentioned, this newer driver would > > still be a better bet overall due to the additional work that has > > already happened on it out-of-tree. The Realtek driver you reference > > probably has no CFG80211 support etc. would be my guess, but I am > > going off what others have suggested in terms of proposing this > > patchset. I can't honestly say what the risk of this happening again > > would be, but minimal I'd imagine. > > ok, understood. That's an important feature. I see that Greg accepted > your patches, there's no point in arguing any more ;-) > > Greg and Larry: Would you mind sharing your ideas about getting > rtl8188eu support mainline? Do you imagine that we clean up this driver > until it can be moved out of staging?
Yes, it's that "simple" :)
> If so, we'd probably have to resolve name conflicts with other realtek > drivers and rename lots of functions.
Odds are that will happen as the code is cleaned up, right?
> Or would a cleanup of the new rtl8188eu driver be a preparation for > adding bits and pieces of it to rtlwifi?
Do you think it will fit into that framework?
thanks,
greg k-h
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