From: Joshua Roys <Joshua.Roys@gtri.gatech.edu>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>,
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
<alexandre.f.demers@gmail.com>, <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: r92su: status and will it be merged anytime soon?
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 11:15:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5277C837.1080203@gtri.gatech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1383581060.14295.16.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net>
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On 11/04/2013 11:04 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-11-04 at 16:47 +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote:
>
>> Be careful ;-). mac80211 is great for softmac/umac/halfmac/semimac devices.
>> However the rtl8712 firmware interface is fullmac-like, so it needs cfg80211.
>> ... and r92su uses cfg80211 exclusively. There's no more WEXT or realtek ioctl
>> legacy API support.
>
> still seems there's duplicate stuff in there like the michael MIC, at
> least lib80211 has that? OTOH, that's not all that much code.
>
> johannes
>
FWIW I separately wrote a "rtlfmac" cfg80211 driver that, after all was
said and done, looked a lot like a barebones r92su. I have been using
my driver for a few weeks now and it looks like multiple people have
reported success using r92su. I believe a fullmac/cfg80211 approach is
completely sufficient and far superior to the mess that is rtl8712. I
would be in favor of r92su replacing staging/rtl8712/.
Josh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-04 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-04 14:17 r92su: status and will it be merged anytime soon? Xose Vazquez Perez
2013-11-04 14:21 ` Johannes Berg
2013-11-04 15:34 ` Larry Finger
2013-11-04 15:47 ` Christian Lamparter
2013-11-04 16:04 ` Johannes Berg
2013-11-04 16:15 ` Joshua Roys [this message]
2013-11-04 16:19 ` Christian Lamparter
2013-11-04 18:32 ` Johannes Berg
2013-11-04 19:10 ` Alexandre Demers
2013-11-04 16:06 ` Xose Vazquez Perez
2013-11-04 16:22 ` Larry Finger
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2013-11-02 20:19 Alexandre Demers
2013-11-02 21:50 ` Christian Lamparter
2013-11-02 21:53 ` Larry Finger
2013-11-02 22:36 ` Alexandre Demers
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