From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: "Gábor Stefanik" <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
Cc: Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Realtek RTL8192SE support ? (aka r8192se_pci)
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:52:05 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D6AC785.6020502@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=RaQonkove9=BrRJFpf+Oc3qkq29sNkxvwRP7w@mail.gmail.com>
On 02/27/2011 03:42 PM, Gábor Stefanik wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
>> On 02/21/2011 03:35 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> As far as I know driver for rtl8192su will be added to kernel
>>> 2.6.38. By any chance does anyone knows if rtl8192se will make it into
>>> this release ?
>>
>> As part of our collaborative effort, Realtek has sent me a mac80211-based
>> driver for the RTL8192SE. It will be submitted to the wireless mailing list
>> for review once the driver for the RTL8192CU is accepted. The earliest this
>> would happen is 2.6.39, but I think 2.6.40 is more realistic. I also have a
>> driver for the RTL8192DE that will follow the RTL8192SE.
>
> Is there any reason why you are holding back release of these drivers?
> You know, the general Linux practice is release-early-release-often...
I know. The main reason is that I have been criticized regarding the quality of
these drivers, and I want to get them in as good as shape as possible.
In addition, the rtl8192se driver that is merged with wireless-testing fails
when allocating PCI resources, and I have not had time to sort it out.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-27 21:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-21 9:35 Realtek RTL8192SE support ? (aka r8192se_pci) Mathieu Malaterre
2011-02-21 16:06 ` Larry Finger
2011-02-21 16:12 ` Mathieu Malaterre
2011-02-21 16:43 ` Larry Finger
2011-02-27 21:31 ` François Valenduc
2011-02-27 21:42 ` Gábor Stefanik
2011-02-27 21:52 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2011-02-27 22:07 ` Gábor Stefanik
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