Return-path: Received: from mail-pv0-f174.google.com ([74.125.83.174]:47536 "EHLO mail-pv0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755153Ab1ECU6J (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2011 16:58:09 -0400 Message-ID: <4DC06BF3.6070208@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20110503_225831_030183_D70514C6) Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 15:56:19 -0500 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor_Stefanik?= CC: Walter Goldens , John W Linville , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, chaoming_li@realsil.com.cn Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] rtlwifi: rtl8192se: Merge new driver References: <776913.88107.qm@web161609.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <4DC0312A.4040303@lwfinger.net> <4DC0669E.4040100@lwfinger.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. It just doesn't use mac80211, which is why it needs to be replaced. Larry