Realtek RTL8821ae driver

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 08:50:26PM -0400, Chris Murphy wrote:
> Problem: On Asus TX201LA running 15.6 kernel x86_64, driver repeatedly
> disconnects and reconnects. Dual boot same machine on Win 8.1 is very stable.
> 
> Behavior starts as soon as Linux is booted and logged in. Saw same behavior on
> 13.32 and earlier kernel versions. Using the latest bios upgrade.
> 
> Keywords: RTL8821AE, TX201LA, Asus Trio
> 
> In addition to the environment info below, I include a copy of dmesg which
> shows the behavior.
> 
> Linux version 3.15.6-031506-generic (apw at gomeisa) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/
> Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) ) #201407172034 SMP Fri Jul 18 00:36:12 UTC 2014

This is a horrid driver, people are working on making it better for
later kernels by rewriting it entirely.  I think that driver will be
merged in the 3.17 kernel release, can you look in the linux-next
release to see if it is there?

Larry, what's the status of your rewrite for this code?

thanks,

greg k-h