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Re: Hi,Linus Torvalds. There's a problem in r8192u driver in Linux new kernel.

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On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 09:58:26PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 08/19/2010 07:15 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 05:37:09PM +0800, Jerry-RealtekFAE wrote:
> >> Dear Sir/Madam
> >>
> >> Please find the RTL8192U latest Linux driver in the attachment.
> >> Please try it on Kernel 2.6.35-1 again.
> > 
> > Could you send patches updating the in-kernel version of this driver to
> > your latest version?  That would help everyone out in the end.
> 
> I have a copy of the driver that Realtek calls the r8712 for the RTL8192 USB
> devices. All of the dead code and the unneeded configuration sections have been
> removed. It will be submitted to staging as soon as Realtek signs off on the
> copyright info. For some reason, it has taken them several weeks and I still
> have no answer. This new driver is stable - the connection stays up for days. I
> expect that it will replace the current one in staging.

Wonderful, that's great news.

Jerry, any word on getting the copyright sign off moved along?

thanks,

greg k-h
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