On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 07:32:51AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 09:40:10PM +0100, Martin Kaiser wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Thus wrote Hans de Goede (hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx): > > > > > Note I have heard that the r8188eu is now (starting with 6.2 ?) supported > > > by one of the non staging realtek wifi drivers. So I think that maybe it > > > can just be removed from staging altogether ? > > > > thanks for bringing this up. > > > > Indeed, the r8xxxu driver does now support the rtl8188eu chipset. The > > code for this chip has landed in Linus' tree for 6.3-rc1. > > > > The r8xxxu driver uses mac80211 and seems to work well (at least for > > me). The Kconfig entry says that features like power management are > > missing, this is supported by r8188eu. > > > > So this raises the question about the future of r8188eu. It might have > > more features, which are probably not well tested, but its integration > > into the rest of the kernel is far behind rtl8xxxu. A lot of people (myself > > included) have submitted cleanups for r8188eu and improved it. Still, > > when 6.3 is released, it's likely that the users of rtl8188eu-based > > dongles will switch to rtl8xxxu. > > > > I guess we might have to bite the bullet and give up on r8188eu... > > > > What do you think? > > Yes, we need to drop the staging driver if there is a "real" kernel > driver that supports the same hardware. We can't have multiple drivers > in the kernel that try to bind to the same device, we've done that in > the past and it causes nothing but problems. > > I'll go make up a patch now to drop the staging driver, thanks for > letting me know. For those that didn't see it, the patch that removes the staging driver is here: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230308131934.380395-1-gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
