Re: Anybody working on rtl8712?

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On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 7:23 PM, Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> On 06/20/2014 10:52 PM, Christian Lamparter wrote:
>>
>>> 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. But as with rtl8192cu, I would recommend adding just
>>> a friendly "printk". Yup, Realtek really outdid themselves with the USB
>>> devices.
>>
>> IMO rtl8192u staging driver should be replaced asap with
>> https://github.com/chunkeey/rtl8192su
>> Because people are wasting time fixing the staging code with no future.
>>
>> It also happens with rtl8188eu/rtl8xxxu
>
> Looking at that page, the first thing that stands out is
> "r92su: update to cfg80211 API 3.19-rc2"
>
> None of the rtl drivers should be using cfg80211, they should be running
> against mac80211 - unless the 8192su is that fundamentally different.
The rtl8712u firmware interface is fundamentally different.
For starters, the firmware expects you to use connect/joinibss, scan,
disconnect commands with an API much like cfg80211.

But as I mentioned before: "I would recommend adding just a _friendly_ printk".

Regards,
Christian
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