Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:50008 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752915AbbIGBlG (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Sep 2015 21:41:06 -0400 From: Jes Sorensen To: Larry Finger Cc: Kalle Valo , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] New driver: rtl8xxxu (mac80211) References: <1440968574-29490-1-git-send-email-Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> <1440968574-29490-2-git-send-email-Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> <87twr7fvbb.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> <55EC72AF.2050803@lwfinger.net> Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2015 21:41:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: <55EC72AF.2050803@lwfinger.net> (Larry Finger's message of "Sun, 6 Sep 2015 12:06:55 -0500") Message-ID: (sfid-20150907_034110_083933_C7C40332) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Larry Finger writes: > On 09/06/2015 09:59 AM, Kalle Valo wrote: >> Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com writes: >> >>> From: Jes Sorensen >>> >>> This is an alternate driver for a number of Realtek WiFi USB devices, >>> including RTL8723AU, RTL8188CU, RTL8188RU, RTL8191CU, and RTL8192CU. >>> It was written from scratch utilizing the Linux mac80211 stack. >>> >>> After spending months cleaning up the vendor provided rtl8723au >>> driver, which comes with it's own 802.11 stack included, I decided to >>> rewrite this driver from the bottom up. >>> >>> Many thanks to Johannes Berg for 802.11 insights and help and Larry >>> Finger for help with the vendor driver. >>> >>> The full git log for the development of this driver can be found here: >>> git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jes/linux.git >>> branch rtl8723au-mac80211 >>> >>> This driver is still under development, but has proven to be very >>> stable for me. It currently supports station mode only. It has support >>> for OFDM and CCK rates, as well as AMPDU. It does lack certain >>> features found in the staging driver, such as power management and >>> 40MHz channel support. In addition it does not support AD-HOC, AP, and >>> monitor mode support at this point. >>> >>> The driver is known to work with the following devices: >>> Lenovo Yoga (rtl8723au) >>> TP-Link TL-WN823N (rtl8192cu) >>> Etekcity 6R (rtl8188cu) >>> Daffodil LAN03 (rtl8188cu) >>> Alfa AWUS036NHR (rtl8188ru) > > One other comment is that using lower case such as rtl8723au indicates > a driver, whereas RTL8723AU is a device. There are no drivers > rtl8188cu or rtl8188ru. I don't see this in general - I had upper case in some places in the driver but it was awful to look at, especially in the dmesg output. Cheers, Jes