On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 12:34:36AM +0530, punit vara wrote: > 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 ? git.kernel.org is the only location, sorry. Try starting with a "clean" version of Linus's tree and just add a branch for my tree, it should be quite a small download. greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
