Re: [RFC 00/16] rtl8xxxu: eFUSE parsing for RTL8188EU chips

[Jakub Sitnicki <jsitnicki@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 02:29 AM CEST, Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> wrote:
> Jakub Sitnicki <jsitnicki@gmail.com> writes:
>> Hi Jes,
>>
>> I'm posting this patch set to show in what direction the work is
>> going.  Hopefully any changes (e.g. renames) which you wouldn't see
>> fit for this driver can be identified early this way.
>>
>> The work is nowhere near the end.  These changes only get me past the
>> parse_efuse() step in the probe() routine.
>>
>> I've structured the patch set in such a way that changes that are not
>> RTL8188EU-specific (preparatory work) come first.  All but the last
>> two patches (tagged "rtl8188eu:") fall into this category.  If you
>> were considering to apply any of them, note that they were not tested
>> with any device that is known to work with rtl8xxxu, only a TP-Link
>> TL-WN725N (RTL8188EU) dongle.
>>
>> The corresponding git branch for this patch set is at:
>>
>> git https://github.com/jsitnicki/linux.git branch rtl8xxxu-rtl8188eu
>
> Jakub,
>
> Thanks for the feedback - some of these patches are good, some of them I
> dislike, and some of them will conflict with work I have been doing
> since I posted the patch. I have been working on adding 8723bu and
> 8192eu support and some of those changes should also benefit your work.
>
> I have pushed my current nextgen tree to git, so if you checkout the
> rtl8xxxu-nextgen branch you will see it.
>
> I'll respond to the individual patches here.

Thanks for the prompt review and the feedback.  I'll rebase the
RTL8188EU-related patches onto the -nextgen branch, and will be watching
it.

Cheers,
Jakub