On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 21:04 -0600, Larry Finger wrote: > On 02/25/2013 08:22 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 18:13 -0600, Larry Finger wrote: > >> This set of patches upgrades drivers rtlwifi, rtl8192c, rtl8192ce, rtl8192se, > >> and rtl8723ae to the state of the vendor driver issued on 2013.02.07. In > >> addition, a new driver for the RTL8188EE chip is added to the kernel. > >> > >> Note: These patches do not upgrade rtl8192de. Those changes will be sent > >> later. > > > > rtl8188e isn't very kernel stylish. > > Looking at it briefly, in fact it's kind of ugly. > > > > Could/should it go into staging? > > It is uglier than I had hoped. I was not quite ready to push it yet, but I got > some pressure from outside, non-Realtek, sources that a kernel version was > needed. They will, in fact, start their integration from the RFC/RFT version. > > The main problem with having it in staging is that we will either have to > include headers from drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/, or duplicate them in the > drivers/staging/rtl8188ee/ directory where keeping them compatible will be a > hassle. Neither solution sounds optimum to me. Perhaps adding a CFLAGS -I include path to a staging Makefile would work instead. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
