From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@xxxxxxxxxx> This is a new driver for the rtl8723au which was written from scratch, to utilize the Linux mac80211 stack. This has been a pet project for me for some time I finally feel it is stable enough to submit. I have used it for a while without any serious issues. I started working on cleaning up the vendor provided driver in staging/rtl8723au over a year ago. After spending 6 months on it, it became obvious to me that it was a rather hopeless task, and I started writing this driver from scratch. I do not have any specs for the chip, so everything is based on knowledge I obtained from dissecting the vendor driver. Special thanks to Larry Finger for help with the original rtl8723au driver, and Johannes Berg for answering all my silly questions about 802.11 innards and the mac80211 stack. Had I known then what I know today about 802.11, I probably would never have so mad as to start this project in the first place! v2 of the patch fixes the endian problem reported by Joe Perches, and adds a module debug parameter so one doesn't have to recompile the driver to change the debug mask (I was convinced I had that as a module parameter already). The latter was suggested by Larry Finger. In addition I fixed up a few cases of trailing whitespaces, a few indentation issues, and a few workarounds to reduce the scriptkiddies complaining about checkpatch warnings. I did run checkpatch on this one, and there are zero legitimate warnings left that needs to be dealt with. There are still some debug portions and code that is #if 0'ed out. I prefer to keep this in place for now as some of it is meant to be enabled later, and other portions I use to match up tables and code to the vendor driver when trying to trace issues when debugging. Cheers, Jes Jes Sorensen (1): New driver: rtl8723au (mac80211) MAINTAINERS | 9 + drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig | 19 + drivers/net/wireless/Makefile | 2 + drivers/net/wireless/rtl8xxxu.c | 4502 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/net/wireless/rtl8xxxu.h | 494 ++++ drivers/net/wireless/rtl8xxxu_regs.h | 940 +++++++ 6 files changed, 5966 insertions(+) create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/rtl8xxxu.c create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/rtl8xxxu.h create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/rtl8xxxu_regs.h -- 2.1.0 -- 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
