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Date:   Tue, 1 Oct 2019 22:48:44 +0200
From:   Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: Support for RTL8188FU
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On 2019-10-01 13:52:30 [-0500], Larry Finger wrote:
> If that is what you read, that is not what I meant.
> 
> The staging driver is really old and does not support nl80211 and friends.
> If you are willing to undertake a 6 to 12-month rewrite of the driver you
> have, and it supports RTL8188EU, then a replacement of the staging driver
> would be what you should do. If you do not want to make that kind of time
> commitment, then a GitHub repo would be your best bet; however, GitHub
> already has 5 such repos for the rtl8188fu. As far as I can tell, none of
> them are yours.
> 
> The first thing I would do is clone the v5.2.2.4 branch of
> lwfinger/rtl8188eu at GitHub, add the USB ID for your device, and see if
> that works. I expect it will. If so, that would get you quite a ways toward
> the changes needed to get that driver into staging.

Thank you for clearing that up.

> Larry

Sebastian