Re: [PATCH 00/12] rtlwifi: rtl8192se: Merge new driver

[Gábor Stefanik]

2011/5/3 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 05/03/2011 03:38 PM, Gábor Stefanik wrote:
>>
>> 2011/5/3 Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>
>>> On 05/03/2011 03:19 PM, Gábor Stefanik wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>  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.
>
> We are in better shape than having to use ndiswrapper or any non-GPL code.
> The r8712u driver in staging is for the RTL8192SU, and it works perfectly
> well.

What about RTL8192DE?

> It just doesn't use mac80211, which is why it needs to be replaced.
>
> Larry
>



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