Return-path: Received: from mail-qy0-f181.google.com ([209.85.216.181]:60537 "EHLO mail-qy0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752264Ab1ECVJk convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2011 17:09:40 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4DC06BF3.6070208@lwfinger.net> References: <776913.88107.qm@web161609.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <4DC0312A.4040303@lwfinger.net> <4DC0669E.4040100@lwfinger.net> <4DC06BF3.6070208@lwfinger.net> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor_Stefanik?= Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 23:09:19 +0200 Message-ID: (sfid-20110503_231030_628062_C7482B17) Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] rtlwifi: rtl8192se: Merge new driver To: Larry Finger Cc: Walter Goldens , John W Linville , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, chaoming_li@realsil.com.cn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 2011/5/3 Larry Finger : > 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. What about RTL8192DE? > It just doesn't use mac80211, which is why it needs to be replaced. > > Larry > -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-)