On Monday, November 04, 2013 09:34:28 AM you wrote: > On 11/04/2013 08:17 AM, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > > Christian Lamparter wrote: > > > >> The issue with r92su is: The driver is ready, but it's fundamentally > > ^^^^^^^^ > >> incompatible with the rtlwifi framework and mac80211. > > > > _anything_ is better than a staging driver. > > > > There are distributions that don't build staging drivers. > > As a result, they force their users to build out-of-tree drivers! > > > So, please, replace and delete staging/rtl8712 with r92su. > > You seem not to understand. Any new wireless driver that does not use mac80211 > *must* go into staging. AFAIK, that rule is absolute, and r92su cannot go into > the regular wireless tree. Be careful ;-). mac80211 is great for softmac/umac/halfmac/semimac devices. However the rtl8712 firmware interface is fullmac-like, so it needs cfg80211. ... and r92su uses cfg80211 exclusively. There's no more WEXT or realtek ioctl legacy API support. Regards, Christian -- 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
