On 6/16/23 05:20, Dmitry Antipov wrote:
Note MAINTAINERS marks drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl818x/rtl8180 as orphaned but drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl818x/rtl8187 as maintained.
Driver rtl8187 is certainly maintained, not that it gets many bug reports. Devices that support 802.11g are not used very often, but at least once a year I use my device to get online to retrieve the drivers for a fancier wifi card that does not have a driver in Linux or Windows. Drivers for the USB-based 8187A and 8187B have been in Linux since version 2.6.38 (December 2010), and also in Windows 7, if not in older versions.
The driver for rtl8180 is not very important, and could be removed as the card uses PCI, not PCIe, slots. I do not have such a device, nor do I have any hardware old enough to support it, even though I do have some stuff that tends to match my age. :)
Larry
