Re: Realtek RTL8821ae driver

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On 07/21/2014 09:10 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 08:50:26PM -0400, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> Problem: On Asus TX201LA running 15.6 kernel x86_64, driver repeatedly
>> disconnects and reconnects. Dual boot same machine on Win 8.1 is very stable.
>>
>> Behavior starts as soon as Linux is booted and logged in. Saw same behavior on
>> 13.32 and earlier kernel versions. Using the latest bios upgrade.
>>
>> Keywords: RTL8821AE, TX201LA, Asus Trio
>>
>> In addition to the environment info below, I include a copy of dmesg which
>> shows the behavior.
>>
>> Linux version 3.15.6-031506-generic (apw@gomeisa) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/
>> Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) ) #201407172034 SMP Fri Jul 18 00:36:12 UTC 2014
> 
> This is a horrid driver, people are working on making it better for
> later kernels by rewriting it entirely.  I think that driver will be
> merged in the 3.17 kernel release, can you look in the linux-next
> release to see if it is there?
> 
> Larry, what's the status of your rewrite for this code?

It is taking longer than I had hoped. Kernel 3.18 is a more realistic time.

Larry


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