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RE: [PATCH v9 14/14] staging: rtlwifi: remove staging rtlwifi driver

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Hi Greg,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kalle Valo [mailto:kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2019 8:10 PM
> To: Tony Chuang
> Cc: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Pkshih; Andy
> Huang; Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx; sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx;
> briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx; gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 14/14] staging: rtlwifi: remove staging rtlwifi driver
> 
> <yhchuang@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > 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
> >
> > Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> BTW, this patch does not apply to wireless-drivers-next anymore. To
> avoid any conflicts, would be it be safer that the driver is removed
> directly from Greg's tree? After rtw88 is applied to
> wireless-drivers-next, of course.
> 
> error: patch failed: drivers/staging/rtlwifi/Kconfig:1
> error: drivers/staging/rtlwifi/Kconfig: patch does not apply
> error: patch failed: drivers/staging/rtlwifi/efuse.c:1
> error: drivers/staging/rtlwifi/efuse.c: patch does not apply
> error: patch failed:
> drivers/staging/rtlwifi/halmac/halmac_88xx/halmac_func_88xx.c:1
> error: drivers/staging/rtlwifi/halmac/halmac_88xx/halmac_func_88xx.c: patch
> does not apply
> error: patch failed: drivers/staging/rtlwifi/pci.h:1
> error: drivers/staging/rtlwifi/pci.h: patch does not apply
> error: patch failed: drivers/staging/rtlwifi/phydm/phydm_rainfo.c:1
> error: drivers/staging/rtlwifi/phydm/phydm_rainfo.c: patch does not apply
> error: patch failed: drivers/staging/rtlwifi/phydm/rtl_phydm.c:1
> error: drivers/staging/rtlwifi/phydm/rtl_phydm.c: patch does not apply
> error: patch failed: drivers/staging/rtlwifi/rtl8822be/fw.c:1
> error: drivers/staging/rtlwifi/rtl8822be/fw.c: patch does not apply
> Patch failed at 0014 staging: rtlwifi: remove staging rtlwifi driver
> 

Hi Greg,

Can you help us to remove the staging driver rtlwifi in your tree ?
I think Kalle can issue a signal to you when he has done reviewing
the rtw88 driver and merge it into wireless-drivers-next.
Thanks

Yan-Hsuan




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