Return-path: Received: from mail-wg0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:54538 "EHLO mail-wg0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751719Ab3IJP74 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Sep 2013 11:59:56 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: andrea.merello@gmail.com Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 17:59:54 +0200 Message-ID: (sfid-20130910_180019_411817_78F881A6) Subject: RTL8187SE staging Linux driver From: Andrea Merello To: wlanfae@realtek.com, shwei Cc: John Linville , linux-kernel , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Michael Wu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello, As you probably know, in the current Linux kernel there is a staging driver for the RTL8187SE device (based on my older RTL8180/RTL8185 Linux driver), while there also a regular (not staging) driver supporting older RTL8185 and RTL8180 devices (net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180) . As far as I can see, the RTL8187SE device seems not so much different from an RTL8185 device. I would like to try (in my spare time) to add support for RTL8187SE device in the current RTL818x driver, in order to avoid code duplication, remove a driver from staging, and make RTL8187SE using mac80211. Do any one of you have any comment/objection/suggestions about this ? Is it possible to get the RTL8187SE documentation to make things easier? For now I will probably keep different RF code for the two cards even if the RTL8225 (zebra 2) radio is used by both RTL8187SE and some RTL8185 devices, however if I could get enough documentation about it, it would be great to try to merge also RF code.. Thank you, Andrea