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

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On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 12:19:14PM +0000, Tony Chuang wrote:
> 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.

Sure, I will be glad to drop the driver from my tree once the new driver
has been added to the wireless-drivers-next tree.  Just let me know!

thanks,

greg k-h



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