On 3/8/23 07:19, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> Now that the same hardware that the r8188eu driver supported is
> supported by the real wireless driver rtl8xxxu, the r8188eu driver can
> be deleted.
>
> Also the rtl8xxxu driver supports way more devices, and is a fraction of
> the overall size, making this a much better overall solution.
>
> Thanks to the r8188eu developers and maintainers and reviewers over the
> years, your work allowed Linux users to use their hardware before the
> real driver was implemented properly.
>
> Reported-by: Hans de Goede<[email protected]>
> Cc: Martin Kaiser<[email protected]>
> Cc: Larry Finger<[email protected]>
> Cc: Phillip Potter<[email protected]>
> Cc: Pavel Skripkin<[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman<[email protected]>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <[email protected]>
This staging driver satisfied a need at the time it was first added to the
kernel, but that time is over!
Larry