On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 05:59:54PM +0200, Andrea Merello wrote: > Hello, > > As you probably know, in the current Linux kernel there is a staging > driver for the RTL8187SE device (based on my older RTL8180/RTL8185 > Linux driver), while there also a regular (not staging) driver > supporting older RTL8185 and RTL8180 devices > (net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180) . > > As far as I can see, the RTL8187SE device seems not so much different > from an RTL8185 device. > I would like to try (in my spare time) to add support for RTL8187SE > device in the current RTL818x driver, in order to avoid code > duplication, remove a driver from staging, and make RTL8187SE using > mac80211. > > Do any one of you have any comment/objection/suggestions about this ? I would be extremely happy for you to tackle this. > Is it possible to get the RTL8187SE documentation to make things easier? This info used to be readily available. If you can't find a source, I probably still have a (mildly useful) datasheet somewhere in my heap... > For now I will probably keep different RF code for the two cards even > if the RTL8225 (zebra 2) radio is used by both RTL8187SE and some > RTL8185 devices, however if I could get enough documentation about it, > it would be great to try to merge also RF code.. > > Thank you, > Andrea Seems reasonable... John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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
