Return-path: Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.24]:21284 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933541Ab0BQAo7 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:44:59 -0500 Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id d26so1633062eyd.19 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:44:56 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100214131810.1a8b49ac@houba> References: <4B38A298.7070103@googlemail.com> <1262037590.16627.99.camel@localhost.localdomain> <3ace41890912310638x4387f73bvc7ba5e00d096ead7@mail.gmail.com> <20100213234456.5ae49b67@houba> <20100214004010.GB18815@tuxdriver.com> <20100214131810.1a8b49ac@houba> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:44:56 +0000 Message-ID: <3ace41891002161644g7d09c598td86381680c3f04f8@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: staging: No option to select rtl8192su in linux-2.6.33-rc2 From: Hin-Tak Leung To: Frederic Leroy Cc: "John W. Linville" , Marcel Holtmann , Chris Mayo , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Frederic Leroy wrote: > Le Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:40:10 -0500, > "John W. Linville" a ?crit : > >> [...] >> > 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 ? It is probably useful to pull from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git as well - I think wireless-testing's log may be more granular