linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] rtl8xxxu: Fix for authentication failure

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Message-ID: <6879f303-7cdc-6e0a-3943-44b541971b7d@lwfinger.net>
Date:   Thu, 3 Nov 2016 10:39:14 -0500
From:   Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:     John Heenan <john@...s.com>
Cc:     Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@...hat.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] rtl8xxxu: Fix for authentication failure

On 11/03/2016 02:10 AM, John Heenan wrote:
> On 3 November 2016 at 11:00, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net> wrote:
>> On 10/30/2016 05:20 AM, John Heenan wrote:
>>>
>>> This fix enables the same sequence of init behaviour as the alternative
>>> working driver for the wireless rtl8723bu IC at
>>> https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8723bu
>>>
>>> For exampe rtl8xxxu_init_device is now called each time
>>> userspace wpa_supplicant is executed instead of just once when
>>> modprobe is executed.
>>
>>
>> After all the trouble you have had with your patches, I would expect you to
>> use more care when composing the commit message. Note the typo in the
>> paragraph above.
>>
>
> OK, the nasty games continue and the message is not getting through.
>
> An appropriate response by a maintainer would have been to request I
> revise the code according to the way it has currently and elegantly
> revised in.

I am NOT a maintainer for this driver. I do have an interest in it, but not in 
any official capacity.

If you cannot accept constructive criticism, you are in the wrong activity. 
Please grow up!

Larry