Re: [PATCH 1/1] New driver: rtl8xxxu (mac80211)

[Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>]

Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> writes:
> On 09/06/2015 09:59 AM, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com writes:
>>
>>> From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
>>>
>>> This is an alternate driver for a number of Realtek WiFi USB devices,
>>> including RTL8723AU, RTL8188CU, RTL8188RU, RTL8191CU, and RTL8192CU.
>>> It was written from scratch utilizing the Linux mac80211 stack.
>>>
>>> After spending months cleaning up the vendor provided rtl8723au
>>> driver, which comes with it's own 802.11 stack included, I decided to
>>> rewrite this driver from the bottom up.
>>>
>>> Many thanks to Johannes Berg for 802.11 insights and help and Larry
>>> Finger for help with the vendor driver.
>>>
>>> The full git log for the development of this driver can be found here:
>>> git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jes/linux.git
>>>      branch rtl8723au-mac80211
>>>
>>> This driver is still under development, but has proven to be very
>>> stable for me. It currently supports station mode only. It has support
>>> for OFDM and CCK rates, as well as AMPDU. It does lack certain
>>> features found in the staging driver, such as power management and
>>> 40MHz channel support. In addition it does not support AD-HOC, AP, and
>>> monitor mode support at this point.
>>>
>>> The driver is known to work with the following devices:
>>> Lenovo Yoga (rtl8723au)
>>> TP-Link TL-WN823N (rtl8192cu)
>>> Etekcity 6R (rtl8188cu)
>>> Daffodil LAN03 (rtl8188cu)
>>> Alfa AWUS036NHR (rtl8188ru)
>
> One other comment is that using lower case such as rtl8723au indicates
> a driver, whereas RTL8723AU is a device. There are no drivers
> rtl8188cu or rtl8188ru.

I don't see this in general - I had upper case in some places in the
driver but it was awful to look at, especially in the dmesg output.

Cheers,
Jes