On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 11:20:11AM -0600, Larry Finger wrote: > On 3/8/19 8:06 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 09:55:43PM +0800, yhchuang@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > From: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > The rtlwifi driver is conflicting with Realtek's new 802.11ac chip > > > series driver rtw88, remove it to avoid racing with the same ID. > > > > > > The rtw88 driver can be found at drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88 > > > > The only objection I have here is that your new driver does not support > > all of the devices that this driver does. So why not just rip out the > > PCI stuff for the staging driver until the USB/SDIO code gets added to > > the new one, and then you can drop the rest of this code? > > Greg, > > The staging driver only supports PCI ID 0x10ec:0xB822, whereas the new one > supports that ID plus 0x10ec:0xC822. There will not be any devices dropped > when the staging code is deleted as long as the new driver is added. Ah, ok, all of those "*usb*" files in that driver directory lied :) If there's no regression of devices, then I have no objection to this: Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> thanks, greg k-h
