Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] staging: rtl8188eu: replace driver with better version

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 09:13:09AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 7/27/21 8:47 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 02:25:34PM +0100, Phillip Potter wrote:
> > > On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 at 14:06, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 01:10:48AM +0100, Phillip Potter wrote:
> > > > > I had to break this patchset up a bit to get around the file size limits
> > > > > on the mailing list, and also I removed the hostapd stuff which is
> > > > > userspace related and therefore not required.
> > > > > 
> > > > > The driver currently in staging is older and less functional than the
> > > > > version on Larry Finger's GitHub account, based upon v4.1.4_6773.20130222.
> > > > > This series of patches therefore:
> > > > > 
> > > > > (1) Removes the current driver from staging.
> > > > > (2) Imports the GitHub version mentioned above in its place.
> > > > 
> > > > Let's do (2) first before worrying about (1), given that we can't get a
> > > > version of (2) that actually builds yet :)
> > > > 
> > > > thanks,
> > > > 
> > > > greg k-h
> > > 
> > > Dear Greg,
> > > 
> > > I'm confused - v3 patchset builds fine for me after applying in
> > > sequence from 1 to 7?
> > 
> > Why does kbuild report problems?
> > 
> > Anyway, please let's just add the new driver in a new directory, get it
> > building, and then we can remove the old one.  That way patches will
> > continue to work and there's no confusion when backporting patches as
> > the code bases are different.
> 
> I get no kbuild problems in the staging-next branch. I have no idea why the
> test robot is reporting errors.
> 
> Keeping the old rtl8188eu directory and builds will result in 3 drivers
> competing for the hardware including rtl8xxxu, rtl8188eu, and r8188eu.

I will only "keep" it around for a day at most.  I will delete the old
driver, I just do not want the "new" driver in the same directory as the
existing one to make it easier to handle changes over time.

thanks,

greg k-h