On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 8:51 PM, punit vara <punitvara@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 10/18/2015 09:00 PM, Greg KH wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 12:02:53PM +0530, punit vara wrote: >>>> >>>> One more thing I would like suggestion how can start switching this >>>> driver to LIB80211 ,MAC80211 ? Which is the first file I should focus >>>> ? Simultaneously I am trying to understand the flow of driver . I >>>> would like to know the start point from where I can start doing small >>>> changes. >>> >>> >>> If you don't understand the wireless stack, I suggest you do some >>> research on it first, converting a driver to the in-kernel stack is a >>> _very_ difficult thing and not something that someone without any >>> experience in this area is going to be able to do easily. >> >> >> I second this suggestion. Your skill level is not nearly sufficient for this >> sort of task. Note that there is a group working on driver rtl8192su, which >> should be able to replace rtl8712u. The participants are very highly skilled >> wireless developers; however, they are having trouble. The internals of the >> Realtek chips are not revealed to anyone in any form other than the code >> they release. >> >> Larry >> >> > > > Thank you Larry ,Tillman , Greg for your valuable suggestions. I am > interested to learn wireless stack .I have already read wireless wiki > documentation , sort of rtl8712 code , cfg80112 APIs . Yeah I agree > with you Greg and Larry that its _very_ difficult to thing to convert > driver in kernel and also rtl8712 has more files compare to others. > Anyway however difficult or tough it may be but I have to go through > it once to become highly skilled or good engineer . I would give it a > try even if I will fail I believe at least 1% of my knowledge will be > improved . More suggestions are welcome. > > I have did > > git remote add gregkh > http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git > > git pull gregkh > > git rebase my_local_branch > > I have got some conflicts .I can solve them but they are too many . I > am trying to solve it . After that I will soon resend this patch. > > Thanks @Greg KH I am working on linux-next .I have tried to rebase my local branch on your staging tree but I am getting too many conflict .and I have tried to clone your staging tree separately but due slow internet I am unable to clone it fully . Is there any other way I can get your staging tree by downloading ? _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
