Return-path: Received: from mo4-p05-ob.smtp.rzone.de ([81.169.146.180]:54183 "EHLO mo4-p05-ob.smtp.rzone.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758478AbbJHUkO (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Oct 2015 16:40:14 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 22:33:55 +0200 From: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann To: Jes Sorensen Cc: Jakub Sitnicki , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, kvalo@codeaurora.org, Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] New driver: rtl8xxxu (mac80211) Message-ID: <20151008223355.248614c9@mir> (sfid-20151008_224019_384807_A7E6E9E1) In-Reply-To: References: <1440883083-32498-1-git-send-email-Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> <1440883083-32498-2-git-send-email-Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> <87d1wp49ds.fsf@frog.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi On 2015-10-08, Jes Sorensen wrote: > Jakub Sitnicki writes: > > Hi Jes, > > > > On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 11:18 PM CEST, Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com wrote: > >> 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. > > > > In the long term, do you plan for this driver to support the > > RTL8188EU-based devices as well? > > I have an 8188EU dongle in my wifi dongle pouch, together with several > other yet to be supported ones :) I am currently trying to get the > 8723BU and 8192EU working, but I haven't had time to work much on the > 8188EU yet. [...] I was wondering about a pretty similar question, do you see this driver as being potentially compatible with rtl8192su[1] or rtl8192du[2] devices or are these too different[3]? Regards Stefan Lippers-Hollmann [1] currently supported by the staging r8712u driver or https://github.com/chunkeey/rtl8192su ID 0bda:8171 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188SU 802.11n WLAN Adapter ID 0bda:8172 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8191SU 802.11n WLAN Adapter [2] currently no mainline support, https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8192du/commits/kernel-version as a dual-band device coming in multiple flavours, this might be a bit harder to support. ID 0bda:8194 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. [3] they obviously aren't covered yet, as rtl8xxxu doesn't know about their USB IDs/ firmware or initialisation routines (respectively 5 GHz support in case of rtl8192du).