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Wed, 18 Oct 2023 12:05:24 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface User-Agent: Cyrus-JMAP/3.9.0-alpha0-1019-ged83ad8595-fm-20231002.001-ged83ad85 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <97e45bae-2489-4f04-b324-8359cfa15f4a@app.fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: <08e266b5-cc6f-4428-bb50-11122a174e94@gmail.com> References: <20231010155444.858483-1-arnd@kernel.org> <08e266b5-cc6f-4428-bb50-11122a174e94@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 18:05:03 +0200 From: "Arnd Bergmann" To: "Philipp Hortmann" , "Arnd Bergmann" , "Kalle Valo" , "Greg Kroah-Hartman" Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] wireless: move obsolete drivers to staging X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20231018_090531_368259_07617C48 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 15.89 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Alexandre Belloni , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Claudiu Beznea , Pavel Machek , Jakub Kicinski , "David S . Miller" , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Larry Finger Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Sun, Oct 15, 2023, at 20:42, Philipp Hortmann wrote: > On 10/13/23 17:36, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> At the moment, I'd suggest focusing on the drivers that still use wext >> (git grep -w iw_handler_def drivers), if we can show that rtl8192e, >> rtl8712 or ks7010 have been broken for a while, removing those would >> help with removing wext altogether. > > > Hi, > > __rtl8192e__ > this hardware is available on ebay 13 times. > ping statistics: > 1191 packets transmitted, 1191 received, 0% packet loss, time 1192169ms > rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.633/2.184/74.792/3.157 ms > maximum download 12,5 MByte/s > > __rtl8712__ > stick packard bell AW-NU120 > ping statistics: > 678 packets transmitted, 652 received, 3.83481% packet loss, time 678287ms > rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.943/4.835/231.435/17.900 ms > maximum download 12,5 MByte/s > > I would like to remove the private functions as the "wireless tools" > package is deprecated. The following functions are available: > kernel@matrix-ESPRIMO-P710:~/Documents/git/kernels/staging$ iwpriv wlan0 > wlan0 Available private ioctls : > read32 (8BE0) : set 1 int & get 0 > write32 (8BE1) : set 1 int & get 0 > driver_ext (8BE2) : set 0 & get 0 > mp_ioctl (8BE3) : set 0 & get 0 > apinfo (8BE4) : set 1 int & get 0 > setpid (8BE5) : set 1 int & get 0 > wps_start (8BE6) : set 1 int & get 0 > chplan (8BE7) : set 1 int & get 0 > > What do you think about this? Larry is the maintainer for rtl8712, so he'd be the one to answer this. Out of the four drivers that are left using wext after my current draft removal series, only ks7010 and rtl8712 use the private handlers, so in theory we could remove the CONFIG_WEXT_PRIV first, but I'm not sure that makes any difference if the plan is to convert all wext drivers to cfg80211 anyway. 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