linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/12] rtlwifi: rtl8192se: Merge new driver

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Message-ID: <BANLkTikxS_2wJEpijmYQy3nPy2-9pykxdA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 3 May 2011 22:38:52 +0200
From:	Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@...il.com>
To:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
Cc:	Walter Goldens <goldenstranger@...oo.com>,
	John W Linville <linville@...driver.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	chaoming_li@...lsil.com.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] rtlwifi: rtl8192se: Merge new driver

2011/5/3 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>:
> On 05/03/2011 03:19 PM, Gábor Stefanik wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 05/03/2011 10:59 AM, Walter Goldens wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This set of patches introduces a driver for the RTL8192SE PCI devices.
>>>>
>>>> Any estimates on the *SU driver? :)
>>>
>>> Now that rtl8192se is submitted, I will start work on the driver for the
>>> RTL8192DE devices. After that will be the RTL8191SU. It has lower
>>> priority
>>> because r8712u from staging handles those devices. It is not based on
>>> mac80211, but it works.
>>
>> Again, may I remind you that the preferred behavior in the Linux world
>> is release-early, release-often? :-)
>
> That I know, but "code first" still applies. If the comparison between
> rtl8192ce and rtl8192cu has any validity for the rtl8192s varieties, roughly
> half of this driver will be shared. In addition, we do have all the USB
> plumbing in place, but we are still talking about a few thousand lines of
> code. At last contact, Realtek has no interest in this project, thus I will
> be on my own.
>
> Larry

I do not mean immediately submitting everything for inclusion -
however, a publicly accessible Git tree would be nice. A non-rtlwifi,
badly coded but functional and GPL-compatible driver is still better
than having to use ndiswrapper/load a binary blob.

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