From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Jakub Sitnicki <jsitnicki@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] staging/rtl8xxx: delete ieee80211 constant duplication
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 13:01:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5581B609.7070506@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oake5m9q.fsf@frog.home>
On 06/17/2015 11:32 AM, Jakub Sitnicki wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 07:12 PM CEST, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
>> These drivers do not use mac80211, which is a prerequisite for inclusion in the
>> regular wifi tree. A complete rewrite will be needed to get them out of staging.
>> Nonetheless, cleanups are in order.
>
> Regarding the rtl8188eu driver, would it be acceptable to rewrite it to
> use the rtlwifi interface instead of using mac80211 directly?
>
> I can't help but notice some similarities between the structure of
> rtl8188eu and the drivers from the rtlwifi family. Then again, perhaps
> I'm missing something that makes it a bad idea.
You can use any part of rtlwifi and rtl_usb, but that won't cover all of the
things needed to implement mac80211.
Jes Sorensen has posted some code that implements a mac80211-based driver for
the RTL8723AU. The structure of the Realtek driver for this card is very similar
to the one for the RTL8188EU.
Larry
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-17 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-27 5:25 [PATCH 0/8] staging/rtl8xxx: delete ieee80211 constant duplication Paul Gortmaker
2015-04-27 5:25 ` [PATCH 1/8] rtl8188eu: don't duplicate ieee80211 constants for status/reason Paul Gortmaker
2015-04-27 5:25 ` [PATCH 2/8] rtl8712: " Paul Gortmaker
2015-04-27 5:25 ` [PATCH 3/8] rtl8192u: don't trample on <linux/ieee80211.h> struct namespace Paul Gortmaker
2015-04-30 13:52 ` Jes Sorensen
2015-04-30 14:22 ` Paul Gortmaker
2015-04-30 14:30 ` Jes Sorensen
2015-04-27 5:25 ` [PATCH 4/8] rtl8192u: promote auth_mode to a full 8 bits Paul Gortmaker
2015-04-27 5:25 ` [PATCH 5/8] rtl8192u: align local ieee80211_wmm_ac_param struct fields with global Paul Gortmaker
2015-04-27 5:25 ` [PATCH 6/8] rtl8192u: don't duplicate ieee80211 constants for status/auth/reason Paul Gortmaker
2015-04-27 5:25 ` [PATCH 7/8] rtl8192u: delete another embedded instance of generic reason codes Paul Gortmaker
2015-04-27 5:25 ` [PATCH 8/8] rtl8192e: delete local copy of iee80211 " Paul Gortmaker
2015-04-27 17:12 ` [PATCH 0/8] staging/rtl8xxx: delete ieee80211 constant duplication Larry Finger
2015-06-17 16:32 ` Jakub Sitnicki
2015-06-17 18:01 ` Larry Finger [this message]
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