linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 0/6] staging: r8188eu: add newer/better RTL8188eu driver

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Message-ID: <YQGoLPnL8s2buxFe@kroah.com>
Date:   Wed, 28 Jul 2021 20:55:40 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
Cc:     Phillip Potter <phil@...lpotter.co.uk>, dan.carpenter@...cle.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev,
        fabioaiuto83@...il.com, martin@...ser.cx
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/6] staging: r8188eu: add newer/better RTL8188eu
 driver

On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 01:41:15PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 7/28/21 1:14 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > Hm, I thought this would be in better shape than it is.
> > 
> > Right now we have 107 .c and .h files in drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/ that
> > come to a total of 44597 lines.
> > 
> > So we are taking double the size here?
> > 
> > I'm all for putting a "better" driver in here, but this feels odd to
> > me...  Is there major new functionality here that is not in the existing
> > driver to justify this?
> > 
> > Ok, let's see how this goes, I'll give it a few weeks to see how much
> > can easily be fixed up to hopefully get back to at least close the
> > existing driver size...
> 
> The major new functionality is that the new one uses cfg80211, whereas the
> old one uses the WEXT calls.

Ok, that's worth it alone.

> It really is an improvement. It just needs a severe cleanup.
> 
> I warned you that this code was rough. It took me several weeks to get the
> old one "ready" for staging. I never devoted that effort to the new one, and
> you wanted it in a place where multiple authors could improve it.

Fair enough, I did ask for it :)

I'll go through and do a license cleanup tomorrow morning to start with,
that should knock a bunch of lines off right away...

thanks,

greg k-h