From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Seiderer Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2020 22:42:51 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/1] package/rtl8821au: add patch fixing sprintf error In-Reply-To: <20200813234209.3b6dd3e1@windsurf.home> References: <20200808173800.2034897-1-christian@paral.in> <20200813232744.12d34e1b@windsurf.home> <20200813234209.3b6dd3e1@windsurf.home> Message-ID: <20200817224251.3e2be53d@gmx.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello Thomas, On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 23:42:09 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 14:31:26 -0700 > Christian Stewart wrote: > > > > Applied to master, thanks. I have to say the snippet of code that is > > > being patched here does not give a very good feel of the rtl8821au > > > code base :-/ > > > > After years of struggling with USB rtl cards (and helping others do > > the same) I have to agree. > > And nobody ever thought of taking all these crappy out of tree WiFi > drivers, submit them for drivers/staging/ inclusion in the upstream > kernel, and progressively clean them up ? For some there are already staging alternatives (see [1], [2], [3], [4], [5])... Regards, Peter [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/staging/rtl8192e [3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/staging/rtl8192u [4] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/staging/rtl8712 [5] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs > > Thomas