On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 11:37:55PM +0200, P. Varet wrote: > On 07/07/15 11:54, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > >https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57171 > > > >This bug is a confusing mix of issues and it seems to be fixed. Just > >use network manager. > > Hi Dan! Thank you for your reply! > > I gave it another try, then. The behavior was the same as described before, > and the device failed to work, as before. That's with kernel 3.19.0 and > NetworkManager 0.9.10 (both from the latest stable Ubuntu release). > > The last commenter on that bug report appears to have given up on helping > fix it after finding a version of Realtek's driver patched to work on recent > kernels... So, what I've been offering. I find myself hoping that my work > hasn't in fact slowed down the actual bug getting fixed. > > >If there are still an issues we can start a new > >thread with Larry Finger and linux-wireless in the CC list. > > That would probably help, yes. Thanks, Dan. :) > > In the meanwhile, shouldn't we officially consider the affected devices > unsupported? I don't very much like the idea of people buying said devices > in good faith and then realizing that they're in fact not usable on Linux by > default. (Mind, I have no idea what the proper policy is in those matter. > Does this suggestion make any sense?) That doesn't make much sense. If the device doesn't work properly with the in-kernel driver, contact the author of it, and the mailing list of the subsystem, and work with them to resolve the issue. That's as "supported" as anything is with Linux :) thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
