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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 18:36:42 -0400
From: Alexandre Demers <alexandre.f.demers@gmail.com>
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To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
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Subject: Re: r92su: status and will it be merged anytime soon?
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Ok, so if I was to work on one of the drivers, I should continue with 
the one under staging, isn't it? Because, let's say I would have some 
spare time to invest somewhere, I could port the driver to use mac80211, 
maybe with some support. I'd prefer to do it only once... on the good 
driver.

Alexandre Demers

On 11/02/2013 05:53 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 11/02/2013 03:19 PM, Alexandre Demers wrote:
>> Good afternoon,
>>
>> I was playing in r8712u because I wanted to send a patch to 
>> conditionally
>> silence a flooding netdev_info(). But then I found out on
>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/rtl819x that r8712u was 
>> to be
>> replaced by r92su.
>>
>>  From its git tree, it seems no commit were added since 4 months ago. 
>> Could
>> someone tell me in what shape is this new driver? Is there any plan 
>> to merge it
>> (under staging I suppose) soon?
>
> As nothing has happened with that GitHub account for several months, 
> my guess is that it will not be merged any time soon.
>
> It would make little sense to replace one staging driver (r8712u) with 
> a different one. The only thing that makes sense is for it to use 
> mac80211 and be merged in the regular drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi tree.
>
> Larry
>
>