Return-path: Received: from mail-gg0-f174.google.com ([209.85.161.174]:43943 "EHLO mail-gg0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753808Ab2GINbW (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2012 09:31:22 -0400 Received: by gglu4 with SMTP id u4so10035041ggl.19 for ; Mon, 09 Jul 2012 06:31:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FFADD27.3020501@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20120709_153131_253099_8A3CAAD7) Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 08:31:19 -0500 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joshua Roys CC: Xose Vazquez Perez , wireless Subject: Re: [WIP v2] rtlwifi: rtl8192su subdriver References: <4FEF0BD1.90405@gmail.com> <4FFAD137.3020806@gtri.gatech.edu> In-Reply-To: <4FFAD137.3020806@gtri.gatech.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/09/2012 07:40 AM, Joshua Roys wrote: > On 06/30/2012 10:23 AM, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: >> on Mon, 7 May 2012 Joshua Roys wrote: >> >>> Currently a WIP. >> >>> A few things have changed between this and the previous version. >>> Larry Finger's \ >>> patch for handling the race condition with mac80211 and the firmware >>> callback is used \ >>> instead (rtlwifi: fix for race condition when firmware is cached), and >>> a new patch \ >> > [...] >> >> hi Joshua, >> >> any news on that ? > > Hello, > > Currently I'm still searching for the hidden/undocumented registers that will > allow the rtlwifi driver to drive the *su chips. (The rtlwifi driver uses the > softmac infrastructure while the current firmware for the *su chips really needs > a fullmac driver.) I don't think I believe the business about a fullmac driver. Driver r8712u, which does handle the RTL8191SU, uses its own softmac driver. Larry