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Date:   Tue, 1 Oct 2019 19:46:12 +0200
From:   Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To:     Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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Subject: Re: Support for RTL8188FU
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On 2019-10-01 11:47:44 [-0500], Larry Finger wrote:
> A quick Internet search shows me that the RTL8188FU is a low-cost chip used
> on Raspberry PI and other similar low-cost systems.
> 
> The USB group at Realtek is notorious for their lack of support for Linux
> drivers. The ones they release have lots of dead code used for Windows and
> FreeBSD drivers, and they have lots of code that applies to other chips.
> With other drivers that I have placed at GitHub, some of the commits that
> remove dead code will remove as many of 10K lines.

yeah, seen that.

> You should be able to find the code that differs between 8188EU and 8188FU
> to see what is different.

So you would recommend to try to merge it to the staging driver.

> The 8188RU is a special variant of the 8188EU. I have no idea what an 8188CU is.
> 
> Your only starting point is the driver that is next to you!

Thank you for your reply.

> Larry

Sebastian