linux-kernel - Re: Added Realtek rtl8192u driver to staging

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Message-ID: <20190821215653.GA8199@pride>
Date:   Wed, 21 Aug 2019 14:56:53 -0700
From:   stephen@...nnan.io
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Jerry Chuang <jerry-chuang@...ltek.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        John Whitmore <johnfwhitmore@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Added Realtek rtl8192u driver to staging - static analysis
 report.

> > Either way, it's not clear to me and I think the code needs cleaning 
> > up.
> > Any ideas?
> 
> 10+ year old code, yeah!!!
> 
> Just guess, who knows, no one seems to care :(

I'm at least interested in helping with cleaning the code and learning 
about the driver, maybe fixing up logical errors like this at some point.  
But I have had some trouble finding the hardware to test on. Maybe that's 
part of the issue?