From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Joshua Roys <Joshua.Roys@gtri.gatech.edu>
Cc: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>,
wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [WIP v2] rtlwifi: rtl8192su subdriver
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 08:31:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FFADD27.3020501@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FFAD137.3020806@gtri.gatech.edu>
On 07/09/2012 07:40 AM, Joshua Roys wrote:
> On 06/30/2012 10:23 AM, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
>> on Mon, 7 May 2012 Joshua Roys wrote:
>>
>>> Currently a WIP.
>>
>>> A few things have changed between this and the previous version.
>>> Larry Finger's \
>>> patch for handling the race condition with mac80211 and the firmware
>>> callback is used \
>>> instead (rtlwifi: fix for race condition when firmware is cached), and
>>> a new patch \
>> > [...]
>>
>> hi Joshua,
>>
>> any news on that ?
>
> Hello,
>
> Currently I'm still searching for the hidden/undocumented registers that will
> allow the rtlwifi driver to drive the *su chips. (The rtlwifi driver uses the
> softmac infrastructure while the current firmware for the *su chips really needs
> a fullmac driver.)
I don't think I believe the business about a fullmac driver. Driver r8712u,
which does handle the RTL8191SU, uses its own softmac driver.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-09 13:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2012-07-09 12:40 ` [WIP v2] rtlwifi: rtl8192su subdriver Joshua Roys
2012-07-09 13:31 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2012-07-13 21:16 ` Xose Vazquez Perez
2012-07-13 21:22 ` Joshua Roys
2012-05-03 5:08 [WIP] " Joshua Roys
2012-05-08 2:18 ` [WIP v2] " Joshua Roys
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