On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 10:13:43PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote: > On 01/22/2014 08:12 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 06:47:29PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote: > >> On 01/20/2014 01:32 PM, Greg KH wrote: > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> I have a box here with a Realtek 8821 wireless PCI device. We don't > >>> seem to have a driver upstream for it yet, but there's a huge tarball > >>> from Realtek on their site. > >>> > >>> Has anyone started picking the needed pieces out of the tarball to get > >>> this merged "properly", or does this need to be done yet? > >>> > >>> Hm, I wonder if I should just dump the tarball into staging for now, to > >>> get my box working, any objections to me doing that? > >> > >> I have had contact with the Realtek developers regarding a Linux driver for the > >> RTL8821AE device with PCI ID 10ec:8821. On Dec 10, 2013, they indicated that > >> there were still 802.11ac problems, and they were not yet ready to release it to > >> me. I will write them again and check if the driver is now ready, and they just > >> forgot to send it to me. Once they are ready, they will also be sending me > >> sample devices. > >> > >> What is the URL for the driver that you found? I did a quick search on their > >> site and did not find it. > > > > It came with a device I got at a conference, along with 1,000 other > > people, so it's being used in the "wild" now, running Linux. I'll send > > you the patch off-list as it's not small. > > > >> To answer your question, I certainly would have no objections to your dumping > >> the driver into staging. I can fix it up there as easily as in my own private > >> stores. You will, of course, get a lot more intermediate patches, but I think > >> you have already anticipated that. The PCI group usually send me mac80211-based > >> drivers, thus the residence in staging may be short, but that is desirable. > > > > Ok, I spent an hour or so trying to see if I could just use the existing > > rtlwifi module with this driver, but it seems that they are using a 2 > > year-old version of it, so I'll have to bundle it directly into the > > driver for now, along with an "odd" bluetooth sharing module. I'll work > > on making the needed changes to the driver to get it to work with > > rtlwifi first, and then clean up the rest over the next few months. I > > have the hardware here to test with, so that should make it easier than > > the normal staging driver work I do. > > > > But for now, staging seems like a good idea, especially as one "distro" > > is already shipping it in this form (SteamOS). > > Too bad I couldn't get one of those devices. They all seem to be sold-out at the moment, if I hear of a way to get any more, I'll be sure to let you know. > The "odd" bluetooth sharing module is part of a new driver that I am about to > push into drivers/net/wireless to be part of 3.15. This one drives the RTL8723BE > device, which is somewhat different from the existing RTL8723AE. Both of the > 8723 device are both wifi and BT, and it also seems that the 8821AE is also a > dual device. > > I will merge the 8821 code with my current working version of rtlwifi and > becoexist, and send you patches for testing. I agree that staging is a good > place for now. Wonderful, I didn't want to deal with becoexist at all, I'll gladly let you do that :) thanks, greg k-h -- 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
