Sender: Larry Finger <larry.finger@gmail.com>
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Date:   Wed, 8 Mar 2023 12:22:47 -0600
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: delete driver
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To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        linux-staging@lists.linux.dev
Cc:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, patches@lists.linux.dev,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
        Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>,
        Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>,
        Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>
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From:   Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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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<hdegoede@redhat.com>
> Cc: Martin Kaiser<martin@kaiser.cx>
> Cc: Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
> Cc: Phillip Potter<phil@philpotter.co.uk>
> Cc: Pavel Skripkin<paskripkin@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Acked-by: Larry Finger <LarryFinger@lwfinger.net>

This staging driver satisfied a need at the time it was first added to the 
kernel, but that time is over!

Larry