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From:   Slade Watkins <slade@sladewatkins.com>
Date:   Thu, 3 Feb 2022 19:26:58 -0500
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Subject: rtw89 driver
To:     Wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>,
        Slade Watkins <slade@sladewatkins.com>
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Hi there,
Quick question for wireless folks: would backporting the rtw89
driver[1] (Realtek 8852AE) to kernels older than 5.16.y be possible at
some point down the road? I ask this as, when testing a stable build
of 5.15.y a bit ago, I had an issue where the driver wasn't present
and the system I was testing it on wasn't happy and started kicking
errors. (It's fairly new, so I did kind of expect that.) I was,
however, able to solve this by manually building and installing the
drivers so it wasn't that big of a deal.

[1] https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw89

Thanks,
Slade