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Cc: Jes Sorensen , Larry Finger Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT, FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on lindbergh.monkeyblade.net Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Considering there is a driver for RTL8188EU already in staging, which people have been whittling down, should I put any effort into adding support to rtl8xxxu? It's actually mostly working already [0], but rtl8xxxu doesn't have AP mode, adhoc mode, power saving, etc so it wouldn't be necessarily better than the driver in staging. [0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jes/linux.git/log/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu?h=rtl8xxxu-8188eu