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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 13:01:45 -0500
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] staging/rtl8xxx: delete ieee80211 constant duplication
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On 06/17/2015 11:32 AM, Jakub Sitnicki wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 07:12 PM CEST, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
>> These drivers do not use mac80211, which is a prerequisite for inclusion in the
>> regular wifi tree. A complete rewrite will be needed to get them out of staging.
>> Nonetheless, cleanups are in order.
>
> Regarding the rtl8188eu driver, would it be acceptable to rewrite it to
> use the rtlwifi interface instead of using mac80211 directly?
>
> I can't help but notice some similarities between the structure of
> rtl8188eu and the drivers from the rtlwifi family.  Then again, perhaps
> I'm missing something that makes it a bad idea.

You can use any part of rtlwifi and rtl_usb, but that won't cover all of the 
things needed to implement mac80211.

Jes Sorensen has posted some code that implements a mac80211-based driver for 
the RTL8723AU. The structure of the Realtek driver for this card is very similar 
to the one for the RTL8188EU.

Larry


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