Re: AP mode support for TP-Link TL-WN722N V2 (Realtek RTL8188EU, USB ID 2357:010c)

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Hi Larry,

> > Thanks a lot for info, I'll give it a try. BTW code in stagging has some recent
> > cleanup. Out of curiosity: what is the reason that the development doesn't
> > happen on mainline? I thought code in mainline was derived from the vendor code.

> The cleanup on the staging driver is only cosmetic, like putting lipstick on
> the pig!

> The vendor releases USB drivers that contain lots of conditional code as it
> is used to generate drivers for Linux, Windows, and FreeBSD. In addition,
> they use techniques that are improper for a driver in the kernel. I estimate
> that it would take at least 6 months to get the one at GitHub into a form
> that it could replace the current staging driver, and probably a year for it
> to make the regular net driver's tree. I have enough to do keeping up with
> kernel API changes, and I will never do the submission to the kernel step.
> It just is not worth it to me.
OK, incredible amount of the work. Understandable (the same mess as for whole
arm, unless the code is being posted to mainline from the beginning) :(.
Thanks for your work!

Kind regards,
Petr

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