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 fixes an 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. v3 resolves the issues and suggestions provided by Johannes Berg to the v2 patch. Discussing with Johannes we agreed it was cleaner to keep the flow folling the BSS_CHANGED events rather than sticking it into sta_state(). In addition I fixed cleaned up a couple of other parts of the code. 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. The code is still work in progress, in particular I want to get AMPDU for TX going, but it will be a little while before I get time to address that. Cheers, Jes Jes Sorensen (1): New driver: rtl8723au (mac80211) MAINTAINERS | 8 + drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig | 19 + drivers/net/wireless/Makefile | 2 + drivers/net/wireless/rtl8xxxu.c | 4500 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/net/wireless/rtl8xxxu.h | 497 ++++ drivers/net/wireless/rtl8xxxu_regs.h | 941 +++++++ 6 files changed, 5967 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
