[PATCH] staging: add TODO for rtl8192u

Christian Lamparter chunkeey at googlemail.com
Thu Feb 25 19:24:33 UTC 2016


Hello,

On Thursday, February 25, 2016 07:54:16 PM Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> BTW, people should not waste time and energy on this driver.
> There is a replacement using the kernel wireless stack at:
> https://github.com/chunkeey/rtl8192su

I think rtl8192u is for a different device. As far as I can tell
the usb_ids in r8192U_core.c [0] don't match those in 
rtl8712/usb_intf.c [1]. The TODO is fine though.

Regards,
Christian

[0] <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c#L86>
[1] <http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_intf.c#L50>

> Cc: Jerry Chuang <jerry-chuang at realtek.com>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab at osg.samsung.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey at googlemail.com>
> Cc: driverdev-devel at linuxdriverproject.org
> Signed-off-by: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez at gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8192u/TODO | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/staging/rtl8192u/TODO
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/TODO b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/TODO
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..6b7a605
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/TODO
> @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
> +	- checkpatch.pl cleanups
> +	- sparse warnings
> +	- move to use the in-kernel wireless stack
> +
> +Please send any patches or complaints about this driver to Greg
> +Kroah-Hartman <greg at kroah.com> and don't bother the upstream wireless
> +kernel developers about it, they want nothing to do with it.
> 



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