Re: repeated bugs in new rtl wifi drivers

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Sep 11 2014 - 18:37:49 EST


On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 03:27:39PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I keep fixing this same bug that keeps showing up in the rtl wifi
> drivers. CL_PRINTF keeps getting redefined (incorrectly) instead of
> using a correctly fixed global. Is there a way to stop this from
> happening again?
>
> Here are the past three (identical) fixes I've landed:
> a3355a62673e2c4bd8617d2f07c8edee92a89b8d
> 037526f1ae7eeff5cf27ad790ebfe30303eeebe8
> 6437f51ec36af8ef1e3e2659439b35c37e5498e2
>
> And the buildbot report below seems to show there are more to be made. :)

Until we figure out a way to keep having the whole rtl wifi driver as a
duplicate of the previous driver before we cleaned it up, I don't know
of a way to do this :(

Larry, I know you keep talking to these developers, any chance anything
is ever going to get better? Anyone I can talk to? Even in person, I
go to Taiwan fairly often...

thanks,

greg k-h
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