Thanks for your code and for documentation! I see you did your work in a new net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187se directory and you produced a new driver. Now I have to evaluate whether to keep doing it in this way, trying to continue your work, or to merge support in net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180 code, that was my original idea.. Now that I have documentation I can better evaluate how much the two boards are similar.. Andrea On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/10/2013 10:59 AM, 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 ? >> >> Is it possible to get the RTL8187SE documentation to make things easier? >> >> 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.. > > > I too would be very happy for you to do this. At one point, I was trying to > do this and I had a version that very nearly worked. The driver was > receiving data and transmitting short packets but failing on longer ones. > Length 42 was OK, but 68 failed. At that point, the chip locked up and > needed to be power cycled. It seems that I got the DMA wrong, but I could > never find it, and eventually, I had to move on. > > At the moment, I am working at getting it to build on the current kernel. > When I finish that, I will send the code to you. Even if you decide to scrap > it, it may help you a little. > > Attached is the datasheet, which is the only documentation I have. > > Larry > > -- 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
