On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 4:49 PM, John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:06:35PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: >> On 10/29/2010 04:27 PM, Gábor Stefanik wrote: >> > >> > AFAIK we only add staging drivers that will eventually move out of >> > staging. r8712 has no chance of ever leaving staging; a completely new >> > driver needs to be written (because it isn't mac80211-based). >> >> That is correct, but it should not be too long until there is a mac80211 driver >> for that chip. I just got GPLd sources from Realtek for a mac80211-based driver >> for the RTL8192CE PCIe device. It will need only a small amount of work to make >> it ready for mainline. The critical part is that it uses the same chip as is >> used in the RTL8712 USB device. > > Sounds like good news... > >> For those that are interested in the RTL8187SE, I'm told that they have a >> working mac80211 driver for it, but that it is not yet stable. > > More good news! Even if that device is aging, this indicates that > Realtek is getting serious about working with the community, even on > older devices. However, it may be a good idea to indicate that "it is not yet stable" AFAIK doesn't preclude inclusion... > > John > -- > John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you > linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. > -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-) -- 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
