Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f66.google.com ([74.125.82.66]:36462 "EHLO mail-wm0-f66.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752332AbcCNOyC (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2016 10:54:02 -0400 Received: by mail-wm0-f66.google.com with SMTP id l68so15621991wml.3 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2016 07:54:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Xose Vazquez Perez Cc: Xose Vazquez Perez , Larry Finger , Florian Schilhabel , Christian Lamparter , Joshua Roys , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Linux Driver Project Developer List , Linux Wireless Subject: [PATCH] staging: refresh TODO for rtl8712 Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 15:50:07 +0100 Message-Id: <1457967007-5991-1-git-send-email-xose.vazquez@gmail.com> (sfid-20160314_155406_892904_D51F0CA6) To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: People should not waste time and energy working on this staging driver. At least four drivers were written for this hardware: https://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=138358275410975 And there is a replacement using the kernel wireless stack at: https://github.com/chunkeey/rtl8192su Also a fullmac/cfg80211 driver(r92su) is available. Cc: Larry Finger Cc: Florian Schilhabel Cc: Christian Lamparter Cc: Joshua Roys Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Linux Driver Project Developer List Cc: Linux Wireless Signed-off-by: Xose Vazquez Perez --- drivers/staging/rtl8712/TODO | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/TODO b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/TODO index d8dfe5b..847c8c4 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/TODO +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/TODO @@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ TODO: - switch to use MAC80211 - checkpatch.pl fixes - only a few remain -Please send any patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman , -Larry Finger and -Florian Schilhabel . - - - +A replacement for this driver with MAC80211 support is available +at https://github.com/chunkeey/rtl8192su +Please send any patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman , +Larry Finger , +Florian Schilhabel and +Linux Driver Project Developer List . -- 2.5.0