On Fri, 23 Jul 2021 at 02:56, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 7/22/21 7:42 PM, Phillip Potter wrote: > > I had to break this patchset up a bit to get around the file size limits > > on the mailing list, and also I removed the hostapd stuff which is > > userspace related and therefore not required. > > > > The driver currently in staging is older and less functional than the > > version on Larry Finger's GitHub account, branch v5.2.2.4. This series > > of patches therefore: > > > > (1) Removes the current driver from staging. > > (2) Imports the GitHub version mentioned above in its place. > > > > There is plenty of work to do to this driver, including to its Makefile, > > but it is at least buildable/usable for now. > > > > Phillip Potter (7): > > staging: rtl8188eu: remove existing staging driver > > staging: rtl8188eu: introduce new core dir for RTL8188eu driver > > staging: rtl8188eu: introduce new hal dir for RTL8188eu driver > > staging: rtl8188eu: introduce new os_dep dir for RTL8188eu driver > > staging: rtl8188eu: introduce new include dir for RTL8188eu driver > > staging: rtl8188eu: introduce new supporting files for RTL8188eu > > driver > > staging: rtl8188eu: attach newly imported driver to build system > > Phillip, > > Patch 3/7 fails with a > drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/phydm_precomp.h: already exists in error: > working directory. When I deleted the file, the patch applied. > > Patch 5/7 fails with a drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/include/hal_data.h: already > exists in working directory. Again it applied when I manually deleted that file. > > Patches 2-6 all have trailing whitespace warnings. > > I have started testing. Unfortunately, my GitHub version has a fault in that it > runs systemd-udevd at 100% of a CPU. So far, I have found that an older commit > works fine. As soon as I find the fault, I will let you know. > > Larry > > > Dear Larry, I obviously screwed up here somewhere as there should be no whitespace or conflicts, so apologies for that. I will do the patch set again after work when I've heard back from you about the relevant commit, and send out again. Regards, Phil
