From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
To: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
Cc: Hanno Zulla <abos@hanno.de>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
        Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net, anthony.wong@canonical.com
Subject: Re: Support of rtl8723bs
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        <1473683031.2930.3.camel@hadess.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 10:47:09 -0400
In-Reply-To: <1473683031.2930.3.camel@hadess.net> (Bastien Nocera's message of
        "Mon, 12 Sep 2016 14:23:51 +0200")
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Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> writes:
> On Mon, 2016-09-12 at 11:20 +0200, Hanno Zulla wrote:
>> Hi Jes,
>> hello linux-wireless,
>> it as a guinea pig to test on my hardware. The newer vendor driver
>> crashed on Ubuntu' 4.4 sources and doesn't compile yet on Ubuntu 4.8-
>> rc
>> sources.
>> https://github.com/anthonywong/rtl8723bs/issues/1
>
> I really don't care about the vendor driver. There's no way to track
> changes other than through code dumps.
>
> Longer term, it seems likely that improving Jes' driver is the way to
> go. At least there's 170k less lines of code to read in the rtl8723bs
> driver to get things going.

Longer term I think it makes sense to add SDIO support to rtl8xxxu. The
differences between the USB version and the SDIO version are rather
small.

That said, I have quite a lot of things on my TODO list so it is going
to take some time until I can look at this. It may make sense to pull
a cleaned up version of the vendor driver into staging until then if
there is a desperate need for it, but otherwise any help would be
appreciated :)

Jes