On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 03:37:30PM +0200, Martin Kaiser wrote: > Hi Phil and all, > > Thus wrote Phillip Potter (phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx): > > > I see what you are saying for sure - I think we've both sunk a fair > > few patches into the existing driver :-) > > > That said, from what Larry has mentioned, this newer driver would > > still be a better bet overall due to the additional work that has > > already happened on it out-of-tree. The Realtek driver you reference > > probably has no CFG80211 support etc. would be my guess, but I am > > going off what others have suggested in terms of proposing this > > patchset. I can't honestly say what the risk of this happening again > > would be, but minimal I'd imagine. > > ok, understood. That's an important feature. I see that Greg accepted > your patches, there's no point in arguing any more ;-) > > Greg and Larry: Would you mind sharing your ideas about getting > rtl8188eu support mainline? Do you imagine that we clean up this driver > until it can be moved out of staging? Yes, it's that "simple" :) > If so, we'd probably have to resolve name conflicts with other realtek > drivers and rename lots of functions. Odds are that will happen as the code is cleaned up, right? > Or would a cleanup of the new rtl8188eu driver be a preparation for > adding bits and pieces of it to rtlwifi? Do you think it will fit into that framework? thanks, greg k-h
