Return-path: Received: from mail-qy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.216.174]:60620 "EHLO mail-qy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754669Ab1ECUjN convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2011 16:39:13 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4DC0669E.4040100@lwfinger.net> References: <776913.88107.qm@web161609.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <4DC0312A.4040303@lwfinger.net> <4DC0669E.4040100@lwfinger.net> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor_Stefanik?= Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 22:38:52 +0200 Message-ID: (sfid-20110503_223929_353981_DC7F5C74) 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 03:19 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. -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-)