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Message-ID: <20130822172302.GA23442@kroah.com> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 10:23:02 -0700 From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT 00/33] Add new staging driver for RTL8188EU On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:33:42PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > Initially, the only Linux driver for the RTL8188EU chips incorporated > in devices such as the TP-Link TL-WN725N was one sent to me privately > by the Realtek engineers with permission to submit it to the Linux kernel. > Not only did it have limited availability, this version fails to build on > kernels 3.10 and newer. > > As an initial step, I fixed the Realtek version to build on all kernels, > and submitted that code to http://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu.git. > This fixed the build and availability problems; however, the problems > associated with building an out-of-kernel driver remain. During the past > few months, I converted the code into a form suitable for Linux, and > pushed those changes to that repo. I now believe it is time to submit > it to drivers/staging. > > Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net> Looks good enough to me, now applied, thanks for doing this work! greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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