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

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Date:	Tue, 03 May 2011 15:56:19 -0500
From:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:	Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@...il.com>
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

On 05/03/2011 03:38 PM, Gábor Stefanik wrote:
> 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.

We are in better shape than having to use ndiswrapper or any non-GPL code. The 
r8712u driver in staging is for the RTL8192SU, and it works perfectly well. It 
just doesn't use mac80211, which is why it needs to be replaced.

Larry
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