wireless drivers in staging

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Fri Sep 11 21:06:03 UTC 2009


On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 03:27:09PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> > I'll speak for myself only on this.  My plan for the rtl8921e driver is
> > to clean it up, move it over to the existing wireless stack in the
> > kernel, and then submit it for inclusion in your main
> > drivers/net/wireless/ tree.
> > 
> > The code is currently using a very old version of the wireless stack, so
> > it isn't going to be that difficult to do.
> > 
> > I've already done a bit of work on the existing driver, and with the
> > help from some people at RealTek, fixed some bugs that were found.
> > Hopefully my contacts with them will not disappear as they have in the
> > past.
> 
> It would be good to get/keep Realtek on-board.  They have provided some
> datasheets in the past, but little direct participation.  I presume
> you have a datasheet for the rtl8192su?

No I do not, I only have the one data sheet, and I can't even find it at
the moment...

thanks,

greg k-h



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