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Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:52:05 -0600
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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Subject: Re: Realtek RTL8192SE support ? (aka r8192se_pci)
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On 02/27/2011 03:42 PM, G?bor Stefanik wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>  wrote:
>> On 02/21/2011 03:35 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>>    As far as I know driver for rtl8192su will be added to kernel
>>> 2.6.38. By any chance does anyone knows if rtl8192se will make it into
>>> this release ?
>>
>> As part of our collaborative effort, Realtek has sent me a mac80211-based
>> driver for the RTL8192SE. It will be submitted to the wireless mailing list
>> for review once the driver for the RTL8192CU is accepted. The earliest this
>> would happen is 2.6.39, but I think 2.6.40 is more realistic. I also have a
>> driver for the RTL8192DE that will follow the RTL8192SE.
>
> Is there any reason why you are holding back release of these drivers?
> You know, the general Linux practice is release-early-release-often...

I know. The main reason is that I have been criticized regarding the quality of 
these drivers, and I want to get them in as good as shape as possible.

In addition, the rtl8192se driver that is merged with wireless-testing fails 
when allocating PCI resources, and I have not had time to sort it out.

Larry