[PATCH] staging: refresh TODO for rtl8712

Xose Vazquez Perez xose.vazquez at gmail.com
Mon Mar 14 14:50:07 UTC 2016


People should not waste time and energy working on this staging driver.
At least four drivers were written for this hardware:
 https://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=138358275410975
And there is a replacement using the kernel wireless stack at:
 https://github.com/chunkeey/rtl8192su
Also a fullmac/cfg80211 driver(r92su) is available.

Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
Cc: Florian Schilhabel <florian.c.schilhabel at googlemail.com>
Cc: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey at googlemail.com>
Cc: Joshua Roys <Joshua.Roys at gtri.gatech.edu>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Linux Driver Project Developer List <driverdev-devel at linuxdriverproject.org>
Cc: Linux Wireless <linux-wireless at vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8712/TODO | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/TODO b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/TODO
index d8dfe5b..847c8c4 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/TODO
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/TODO
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ TODO:
 - switch to use MAC80211
 - checkpatch.pl fixes - only a few remain
 
-Please send any patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg at kroah.com>,
-Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net> and
-Florian Schilhabel <florian.c.schilhabel at googlemail.com>.
-
-
-
+A replacement for this driver with MAC80211 support is available
+at https://github.com/chunkeey/rtl8192su
 
+Please send any patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>,
+Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>,
+Florian Schilhabel <florian.c.schilhabel at googlemail.com> and
+Linux Driver Project Developer List <driverdev-devel at linuxdriverproject.org>.
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2.5.0



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