netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/6 NEXT]staging: r8723au: Add new driver

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Message-ID: <53363E1E.6050308@lwfinger.net>
Date:	Fri, 28 Mar 2014 22:29:34 -0500
From:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
CC:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6 NEXT]staging: r8723au: Add new driver

On 03/28/2014 10:26 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-03-28 at 21:37 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
>> The Realtek USB device RTL8723AU is found in Lenovo Yoga 13 tablets.
>> A driver for it has been available in a GitHub repo for several months.
> []
>>   133 files changed, 89878 insertions(+)
>
> eek.  realtek don't do small or concise.

No, they do not. Those 90 K lines are after Jes and I deleted several thousand 
lines. Of course, all these USB drivers have a complete MAC stack - they do not 
do mac80211. :(

Larry


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