Anybody working on rtl8712?

Jes Sorensen Jes.Sorensen at redhat.com
Tue May 5 17:23:58 UTC 2015


Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez at gmail.com> writes:
> On 06/20/2014 10:52 PM, Christian Lamparter wrote:
>
>> rtl8192su development is chugging along. It just doesn't take place on
>> driverdev list. The driver reached "feature parity" with rtl8192cu for
>> some time ago. But as with rtl8192cu, I would recommend adding just
>> a friendly "printk". Yup, Realtek really outdid themselves with the USB
>> devices.
>
> IMO rtl8192u staging driver should be replaced asap with
> https://github.com/chunkeey/rtl8192su
> Because people are wasting time fixing the staging code with no future.
>
> It also happens with rtl8188eu/rtl8xxxu

Looking at that page, the first thing that stands out is
"r92su: update to cfg80211 API 3.19-rc2"

None of the rtl drivers should be using cfg80211, they should be running
against mac80211 - unless the 8192su is that fundamentally different.

Jes


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