Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:18:10 +0100
From: Frederic Leroy <fredo@starox.org>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
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Subject: Re: staging: No option to select rtl8192su in linux-2.6.33-rc2
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Le Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:40:10 -0500,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> a écrit :

> [...]
> > Should I follow the TODO file from Greg in staging :
> > ( which seems to merge : rtl8192e  rtl8192su  rtl8192u )
> > [...] 
> This is a reasonable plan overall, although I might quibble with
> the order.
>
> > Or use rtl818x tree to start a new device ?
> 
> YMMV, but given the code I've seen for the Realtek drivers in staging
> I might be inclined to start by forking rtl8180 and making the
> necessary hardware changes from there.
 
It was my impression too, but as you say, YMMV. It will be my first
driver, although I already hacked the kernel, make netfilters modules
and read lwn ;).

For the process, it is still unclear for me. I copy rtl8180*[ch] to
rtl8192*[ch], and start to hack into to make clean git patches ?

On which tree should I base my work : 
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git ?

> hth!

It helps :)

-- 
Frédéric Leroy