Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755247Ab1ECU6L (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2011 16:58:11 -0400 Received: from mail-pv0-f174.google.com ([74.125.83.174]:47536 "EHLO mail-pv0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755153Ab1ECU6J (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2011 16:58:09 -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=MNG1G9mXbvZ47B3/ECOLsevvx+eoLGaEmpR+JhtYU8T3ze4EHg01R0tbOu/HZi8vdd 2VhTuuPbZi1MLVMm6lbiF5E9Y7MyQEoPB5jmdVebq4uDFljJ9URWrbgw8IqVj68di2HB Kldt+FvFDrpfA2jgWDOd38ufPbIOyIekBJMYM= Message-ID: <4DC06BF3.6070208@lwfinger.net> Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 15:56:19 -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> <4DC0669E.4040100@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: 1979 Lines: 46 On 05/03/2011 03:38 PM, G?bor Stefanik wrote: > 2011/5/3 Larry Finger: >> 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 > > I do not mean immediately submitting everything for inclusion - > however, a publicly accessible Git tree would be nice. A non-rtlwifi, > badly coded but functional and GPL-compatible driver is still better > than having to use ndiswrapper/load a binary blob. We are in better shape than having to use ndiswrapper or any non-GPL code. The r8712u driver in staging is for the RTL8192SU, and it works perfectly well. It just doesn't use mac80211, which is why it needs to be replaced. 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/