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From:   Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>
Date:   Tue, 27 Jul 2021 14:25:34 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] staging: rtl8188eu: replace driver with better version
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 at 14:06, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 01:10:48AM +0100, Phillip Potter wrote:
> > I had to break this patchset up a bit to get around the file size limits
> > on the mailing list, and also I removed the hostapd stuff which is
> > userspace related and therefore not required.
> >
> > The driver currently in staging is older and less functional than the
> > version on Larry Finger's GitHub account, based upon v4.1.4_6773.20130222.
> > This series of patches therefore:
> >
> > (1) Removes the current driver from staging.
> > (2) Imports the GitHub version mentioned above in its place.
>
> Let's do (2) first before worrying about (1), given that we can't get a
> version of (2) that actually builds yet :)
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

Dear Greg,

I'm confused - v3 patchset builds fine for me after applying in
sequence from 1 to 7?

Regards,
Phil