On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 11:44:10AM +0100, Phillip Potter wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jul 2021 at 20:18, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On 7/21/21 1:28 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > > You're obviously not a Realtek employee, but what are they doing for > > > wireless drivers these days? > > > > You are correct in that I am not a Realtek employee, nor do I have any knowledge > > of the internals of any of their chips. I do have a close working arrangement > > with the head of their PCI driver development, and I have gotten free samples of > > some of their chips. I am a volunteer that is interested in providing drivers > > for the devices in new laptops with wireless chips that do not yet have a Linux > > driver in the kernel. I also provide relatively modern drivers for older USB > > devices through GitHub repos. > > > > From what I know, the PCI group at Realtek is mainly working on new 802.11ac > > devices, but are leaving some hooks for the USB and SDIO equivalents of those > > chips (RTL8822BE, RTL8822CE, RTL8821CE, RTL8723DE, and RTL8852AE). These drivers > > are either in the drivers/net/wireless tree of the kernel, or are under review > > for such inclusion. > > > > I have no current contact with the USB part of their driver development. > > > > Larry > > > > > Dear Larry, > > Thank you for this info, it's very useful. Are you saying that in its > current state the GitHub driver would not even be accepted into > staging in your opinion? I am happy to continue improving it, but in > my mind this should probably be done publicly, within the kernel tree. > Not sure what others think but if there is general consensus then I > can submit this new version to staging and integrate within build > framework etc, then we can start improving it and getting it ready to > move beyond that. Sounds like your driver is further along the path, > and we should be using it, but I'm interested in what others think of > course. If the code looks "better", I have no objection to just adding it to drivers/staging/ and deleting the existing one here, so that everyone can work on this together in one single place. Larry, any objection to that? thanks, greg k-h
