Greg,
This E-mail is to prepare you for a new Realtek RTL8192EE driver that I intend
to submit early next week. I hope it will be in time for kernel 3.16.
This device is incorporated in the recently introduced Lenovo T440s tablet, and
from the correspondence that I have received, there have been a number of
shipments of these with Ubuntu installed. Initially I only supplied patches to
add the driver. Because generating a new kernel for Ubuntu can be a daunting
task for beginners, I added .deb files to my FTP site last week.
As this driver uses mac80211, it would technically meet the requirements for
inclusion in the regular wireless tree; however, it incorporates a completely
new RX and TX DMA descriptor model, and I have not yet been able to modify the
rtlwifi and rtl_pci minidrivers to function correctly. For that reason, I plan
to add it to staging for one cycle. My efforts on this new driver is the main
reason that I have not had time to make any modifications to the RTL8821AE
driver in staging as I promised earlier.
Thanks,
Larry
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