Le Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:21:46 -0600, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > [...] > * Make certain the driver in staging works in its present form. Currently, I use it currently and seems stable. > * Prepare a patch to eliminate the unused branches of if(0) and if(1) > [...] > After the staging driver is leaner and cleaner, then you can start on > the port. As the RTL8192SU is a USB device, you may want to start > with rtl8187 rather than rtl8180, which is a PCI device. Once you > reach the point of getting a driver that has minimal functionality, > you can use the USB capture routines to compare your version with the > one that works. > > Writing a new driver is a very involved process as I have found with > the RTL8187SE. In fact, my first two attempts failed, in large part > because I did not do the steps above. The current attempt looks more > promising as it has successfully read the EEPROM and is about 1000 > register read/write steps toward getting the device initialized. Thanks for your wise advice Larry. I will follow it. -- Frédéric Leroy -- 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
