On 10/30/24 10:38 AM, Nam Cao wrote:
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.
... and neither did r8712u. what lives on is the OpenBSD port:
<https://man.openbsd.org/rsu.4> and the firmware: rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin
in linux-firmware.git:
<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin>
Cheers,
Christian
