On 17.01.2017 14:05, Hans de Goede wrote: > On 17-01-17 13:44, Bastien Nocera wrote: >> On Tue, 2017-01-17 at 13:11 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: >>> All I'm asking from the fedora kernel team is permission >>> to add the driver. >> Would it be that much more work to get those drivers in staging? > Getting them in staging requires some commitment to them > becoming mainline ready in due course. AFAICT no one is > working on fixing the remaining blockers for e.g. the > rtl8723bs code and the rtl8xxxu path is likely a better > way forward. Nevertheless it afaics might be worth asking Greg or Larry if they might be willing to include it as a stop-gap solution until rtl8xxxu is ready to fill the gap, as many distros are shipping this driver, like your said. >From quick googling it seems to be that ath6kl and wlags49_h25 were added to the staging tree for similar reason. But details differ and that was years ago, so yes, maybe they will shoot it down. But might be worth a shot. CU, knurd _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
