On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 12:34:33PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 10:24:59PM +0200, Tillmann Heidsieck wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 09:56:19AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> > > The primary requirement for moving a driver out of staging is that it use
> > > mac80211. No amount of cosmetic fixing will ever make that change for
> > > rtl8712u!
> >
> > As I am pretty sure someone has done something like this before, is
> > there a best practice write-up on this? Or a driver that is recommended
> > for usage as a template?
>
> That's a good question. The rtl* drivers are basically a dozen copies
> of the same code. I think we have had a few escape from staging?
>
There have several realtek drivers which have escaped staging. All of
them seem to have been re-writes from scratch. Three of them were wifi
drivers.
rtl8187se: 5ed0a8e66709 ('staging: delete rtl8187se wireless driver')
rtl8192ee: f823182bc289 ('staging: r8192ee: Remove staging driver')
rtl8821ae: 76272ab3f348 ('staging: rtl8821ae: remove driver')
It feels like cleaning up rtl drivers is a waste of time except for the
churn. Staging was deliberately designed to encourage churn so that a
lot of newbies could get experience sending patches. It would have been
easy enough to run new drivers through checkpatch.pl --fix or whatever
but churn was part of the point from square one.
regards,
dan carpenter
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