On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 12:33:28PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > On 7/21/21 2:49 AM, Phillip Potter wrote: > > Dear Larry, > > > > Whilst I (and no doubt others) are happy to look into what you've > > suggested, I do have a few questions: > > (1) Why is the version from github not the one in staging? > > (2) On a related note, working on it offline is difficult in terms of > > proving contributions, particularly for a kernel mentee such as myself. > > > > Might I suggest replacing this driver with the one you suggested > > entirely, so work on it can continue in public? I am happy to submit > > this and continue work if you think it would be viable. Many thanks and > > I appreciate your thoughts on this. > > The reason that the newer driver is at GitHub, rather than in the kernel, is > that I never want to devote the 6 months needed to get it into the shape of > the old one that I did send to staging. If you take a little time to look at > the GitHub code, you will see what I mean. I did this once before only to > have Realtek release a new version with all the old warts again. At least we > have the fact that this is a heritage product, and Realtek will not be > releasing any newer drivers. You're obviously not a Realtek employee, but what are they doing for wireless drivers these days? regards, dan carpenter
