Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755025Ab1ECUdk (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2011 16:33:40 -0400 Received: from mail-px0-f170.google.com ([209.85.212.170]:35729 "EHLO mail-px0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754580Ab1ECUdi (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2011 16:33:38 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=SQZYyZI5G646V8pyU32XjzvwpwnJWGdPtub8HgZZKBRxps9oCuwpkNCsQnIxsmLrPW Qgxs1+bNyTy2xy2qlrBatC32CNi7/837YNe68cXjMZEMbFT2YFO+2xMh2jP2dHCxAAVg 7sxWmUjFX4mDuEbWtaTL4OWUW6PmU8g3eCJSA= Message-ID: <4DC0669E.4040100@lwfinger.net> Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 15:33:34 -0500 From: Larry Finger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110221 SUSE/3.1.8 Thunderbird/3.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor_Stefanik?= CC: Walter Goldens , John W Linville , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, chaoming_li@realsil.com.cn Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] rtlwifi: rtl8192se: Merge new driver References: <776913.88107.qm@web161609.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <4DC0312A.4040303@lwfinger.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1315 Lines: 30 On 05/03/2011 03:19 PM, G?bor Stefanik wrote: > On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Larry Finger wrote: >> On 05/03/2011 10:59 AM, Walter Goldens wrote: >>> >>>> This set of patches introduces a driver for the RTL8192SE PCI devices. >>> >>> Any estimates on the *SU driver? :) >> >> Now that rtl8192se is submitted, I will start work on the driver for the >> RTL8192DE devices. After that will be the RTL8191SU. It has lower priority >> because r8712u from staging handles those devices. It is not based on >> mac80211, but it works. > > Again, may I remind you that the preferred behavior in the Linux world > is release-early, release-often? :-) That I know, but "code first" still applies. If the comparison between rtl8192ce and rtl8192cu has any validity for the rtl8192s varieties, roughly half of this driver will be shared. In addition, we do have all the USB plumbing in place, but we are still talking about a few thousand lines of code. At last contact, Realtek has no interest in this project, thus I will be on my own. Larry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/