On 11/09/2009 10:56 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Hi Bartolomiej, > > Em Mon, 9 Nov 2009 17:31:36 +0100 > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > >> From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> >> Subject: [PATCH] Staging: remove rtl8187se driver because of lack of development activities >> >> This driver hasn't seen any real development activities since early July: >> >> 257bc86 Staging: rtl8187se: remove unused #include <linu >> 2035beb param:remove-useless-writable-charp >> 305409a tree-wide: fix some typos and punctuation in com >> b881c6c Staging: fix wireless drivers depends >> a010a33 Staging: rtl8187se/rtl8192e/rtl8192su: allow mod >> 125b181 staging: Add proper selection of WIRELESS_EXT an >> b3184e1 Staging: rtl8187se: Fix comment-out-typo >> b6ac161 Staging: ARRAY_SIZE changes >> >> so remove it for now. >> >> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> > > This driver has several points in common with rtl8192* drivers. As I'm > currently working on cleaning up rtl8192u and see what can be done to merge the > common code used by all those realtek drivers, I prefer to keep this driver for > more time at the tree. > > The issue I'm currently facing is that we should rearrange the drivers/staging/rtl* > into a common rtl component tree, moving the common components to there. This will > avoid duplicated efforts to cleanup the same code several times, on different > places. > > I started working on it this weekend, but I haven't finish it yet. As I just told Bart (off-list), I started my work on a mainline rtl8187se driver with the rtl8180 code. There should be plenty of opportunity to set up common code for the rtl* drivers. I will keep a close eye on your developments. Larry -- 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
