From: Luca Ceresoli via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>
Cc: buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/rtl8188eu: move upstream to Benetti Engineering Github to fix Linux 6.15 build failure
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2025 12:16:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250709121646.761ed714@booty> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250618145857.1206836-1-giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>
Hello Giulio,
On Wed, 18 Jun 2025 16:58:57 +0200
Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com> wrote:
> Benetti Engineering just took over Larry Finger(lwfinger)'s repository
> rtl8188eu since Larry unfortunately passed away[0](RIP) and there are
> pending PRs that will never be checked as stated here[1]. So basically move
> github user to benetti-engineering-sas and update version with latest that
> fixes build failure with Linux version 6.15. And let's drop local patches
> that are now upstreamed as well. Let's also drop obsolete Config.in
> informations since as stated here[2]: "This driver is under development
> and has a limited feature set. In particular it does not yet support 40MHz
> channels and power management". At the same time drop other suggestions
> like enabling CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT or "this package needs a firmware loading
> mechanism to load the binary blob for the chip to work" since they are now
> part of the package. And of course let's update package's URL due to the
> moving.
>
> [0]: https://lwn.net/Articles/979419/
> [1]: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu/pull/464
>
> Fixes:
> https://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/d59537da8eb27d737718885dc81ec257a2791455/
>
> Signed-off-by: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>
Reviewed-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@bootlin.com>
> NOTE: Luca Ceresoli, do you want to remain listed in the DEVELOPERS file as
> maintainer of this driver?
I'm not using this package since ages and you are clearly maintaining
carefully, so I think I can remove myself.
Luca
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2025-06-18 14:58 [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/rtl8188eu: move upstream to Benetti Engineering Github to fix Linux 6.15 build failure Giulio Benetti
2025-07-09 10:16 ` Luca Ceresoli via buildroot [this message]
2025-07-21 20:19 ` Julien Olivain via buildroot
2025-08-07 18:23 ` Thomas Perale via buildroot
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