On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 04:49:29PM +0200, Philipp Hortmann wrote: > This driver is in the staging area since 2010. > > The following reasons lead to the removal: > - This driver generates maintenance workload for itself and for API wext > - A MAC80211 driver was available in 2016 time frame; This driver does > not compile anymore but would be a better starting point than the > current driver. Here the note from the TODO file: > A replacement for this driver with MAC80211 support is available > at https://github.com/chunkeey/rtl8192su > - no progress changing to mac80211 > - Using this hardware is security wise not state of the art as WPA3 is > not supported. > > The longterm kernels will still support this hardware for years. > > Find further discussions in the Link below. > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-staging/a02e3e0b-8a9b-47d5-87cf-2c957a474daa@xxxxxxxxx/T/#t I added owner of that "replacement driver" to CC: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@xxxxxxxxx> I vaguely remembered that he mentioned the replacement driver doesn't work very well. But can't find that email again. Nam
