On 11/04/2013 11:04 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
On Mon, 2013-11-04 at 16:47 +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote: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.still seems there's duplicate stuff in there like the michael MIC, at least lib80211 has that? OTOH, that's not all that much code. johannes
FWIW I separately wrote a "rtlfmac" cfg80211 driver that, after all was said and done, looked a lot like a barebones r92su. I have been using my driver for a few weeks now and it looks like multiple people have reported success using r92su. I believe a fullmac/cfg80211 approach is completely sufficient and far superior to the mess that is rtl8712. I would be in favor of r92su replacing staging/rtl8712/.
Josh
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