On Saturday, June 21, 2014 06:45:07 PM Kristina Martšenko wrote: > On 20/06/14 23:52, Christian Lamparter wrote: > > On Friday, June 20, 2014 09:19:07 PM Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > >> Kristina wrote: > >> > >>> I'm helping Greg do a bit of cleanup in the staging tree. I noticed that > >>> nobody seems to have worked towards moving rtl8712 out of staging in > >>> over a year. Are there any plans to clean it up and move it out soon? > >>> Because otherwise we're going to have to delete the driver, as we don't > >>> want staging to become a permanent place for unfinished code. > >> Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> is working on a new driver > >> based on mac80211: https://github.com/chunkeey/rtl8192su > > Thanks for pointing that out and forwarding the email to Christian. > > > rtl8192su development is chugging along. It just doesn't take place on > > driverdev list. The driver reached "feature parity" with rtl8192cu for > > some time ago. > > Great, thanks for letting me know. If you plan to keep working on it, do > you think it would be a good idea to add yourself and a link to your > github to the staging driver's TODO file? That way people who find it > and want to work on it can join your effort, instead of starting their own. Actually, this is already happening. I get mails about rtl8192su. So, people who are interested are definitely following the development. However the hurdles for rtl8192su driver are quite high (3.15+ kernel [1]). This is due to the driver being based on rtlwifi framework (the devices shares a lot of common code with the rtl8192SE - the pcie version). The development takes place on top of wireless-testing.git, so it can be merged with the rest of the drivers. (If someone is interested in the details: how a wireless drivers are mainlined. There's a nifty process plan right here: [0] - check it out!). (NB: my stance on the TODO: Leave it the way it is. After all, you want those free checkpatch.pl and smatch/sparse fixes, right?) > > But as with rtl8192cu, I would recommend adding just a friendly "printk". > > I'm not sure what printk you're referring to. I think there's a reason why the development takes so long (The RTL8192S* chips have been around since 2008, 2009) and why we all have better things to do and write harsh responses. As far as I can tell, It would be great if Realtek could have a few dedicated devs, which take care of integrating their own linux drivers into /drivers/net/wireless instead of dumping it into /driver/staging. This might sounds like hobbyists wifi-devs are a bunch of *****. However, other (wifi-)vendor (e.g.: Intel, Qualcom, TI, Broadcom and Marvell) have been participating for some time now. And their end-users are very happy as a result of this. Now, if only Realtek would join the party; that would be "awesome". Regards, Chr [0] <http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/process#Maintainer_chain> [1] <https://github.com/chunkeey/rtl8192su/issues/2> _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
