[PATCH] Alternate rtl8192cu driver.

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Mon Jul 6 17:13:45 UTC 2015


On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 07:01:30PM +0200, P. Varet wrote:
> On 07/06/2015 06:47 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> >How about making it a patch for drivers/staging/ ?  That way the code
> >can get cleaned up in-tree by others?
> 
> Ah, I thought that was what I did? As in, I checked out the kernel git
> repository, moved the driver code into drivers/staging/, and used git diff
> to generate the attached patch. What did I do wrong?

Ah, you did that, I didn't look at the compressed file as you said it
had a dkms Makefile, so I assumed it wasn't for the kernel tree.

But, have you tried the in-kernel driver for this device?  It's in
drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/ ?  I really don't want to merge
a driver for a device we already support.  Why not work with the author
of that driver to fix any problems you might have with it, instead of
using a totally different driver that isn't using the in-kernel wifi
stack?

thanks,

greg k-h


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