People should not waste time and energy working on this staging driver.
At least four drivers were written for this hardware:
https://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=138358275410975
And there is a replacement using the kernel wireless stack at:
https://github.com/chunkeey/rtl8192su
Also a fullmac/cfg80211 driver(r92su) is available.
Cc: Larry Finger <[email protected]>
Cc: Florian Schilhabel <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Lamparter <[email protected]>
Cc: Joshua Roys <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Linux Driver Project Developer List <[email protected]>
Cc: Linux Wireless <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Xose Vazquez Perez <[email protected]>
---
drivers/staging/rtl8712/TODO | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/TODO b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/TODO
index d8dfe5b..847c8c4 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/TODO
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/TODO
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ TODO:
- switch to use MAC80211
- checkpatch.pl fixes - only a few remain
-Please send any patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>,
-Larry Finger <[email protected]> and
-Florian Schilhabel <[email protected]>.
-
-
-
+A replacement for this driver with MAC80211 support is available
+at https://github.com/chunkeey/rtl8192su
+Please send any patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>,
+Larry Finger <[email protected]>,
+Florian Schilhabel <[email protected]> and
+Linux Driver Project Developer List <[email protected]>.
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2.5.0