From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-lj1-f175.google.com (mail-lj1-f175.google.com [209.85.208.175]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 57E55DA96; Fri, 10 Mar 2023 19:08:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lj1-f175.google.com with SMTP id g18so6428246ljl.3; Fri, 10 Mar 2023 11:08:53 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20210112; t=1678475331; h=content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:from:references:cc:to :content-language:subject:user-agent:mime-version:date:message-id :from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=5aAsGyVx7NR5HR+xvNYcoRf6KVgVqRWKFB6FO2GAIJA=; b=Vtz7Nmt9yoM4cZJAd4Ac/Lz5W1ayYre4GZ4trac1YWMbDvMTha4GS/2mEqQi1XKwaa l4h8yDZu0Va957lrgp1DW9AxkF3IW27YWn9SlWst8zTIcF5Vqb3ndk39YlLZCJ3EaRfb QkoxjljEs+EHQOrmdJ1GEdz8AX9fg8FV9eIUJt4GeJS9sP3Eu+sm2D7wHYc14eqgq6EN /zfCa135Kj9lLWH8CkgLhdA3lv4/ey5CdOcAEw4q6y4Sc3UVgLehZh453fpGBdtg0QvU jG1oka/PXnsDYABLF6Mdmm3grLtFB6UbZt+7LST4mcGtZl/nOL00LnLskwDfWmzYIlVQ RKNA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; t=1678475331; h=content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:from:references:cc:to :content-language:subject:user-agent:mime-version:date:message-id :x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=5aAsGyVx7NR5HR+xvNYcoRf6KVgVqRWKFB6FO2GAIJA=; b=GFuGFVbEFPrvhHDxGdvbrCtr/ixEfeHaHzwEgRDH7SOrm1sXP9AvWCdcXHMc8pEfmZ qz+oMs23zGVeOrnPgMPOH1mOCTYwqcdHYsU7okaYKA888P4IGR64zSIL7Cw84JEljHcV nZt4wDknr4mQXFbgEh1xSct/7ZBOAXr8VXszDNjyZBBuCQHR2Ls7+FwrR8MstUOlFwp1 91tMWzjR98Eln+7LL/HTThhtoXaTWXE18okv7eCBhWviAUyxsatXFZ1wq1knkGwMi9IY oF881k9HQmIhcAAl1PRmQqPda/Z0zuT26dpZjOWxxU8o1gqjgB2VxCzcM+BRwdqeOZs/ b7Pg== X-Gm-Message-State: AO0yUKXbEe8+4Bg92Sqje5YKqKHC35QimivMTF+t8w2QF4SzGgbT/UUv 9vBOIQtJvvjhBcOGU0HWZO8= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AK7set9/3pAcpnd/tpmly8oKdr2X6da4QN4Rphc1UEr7Lsx9gJSNMfzLIyA8p2JVtxUv6qcGSzCLZQ== X-Received: by 2002:a2e:720c:0:b0:293:4ba1:a78b with SMTP id n12-20020a2e720c000000b002934ba1a78bmr8007295ljc.25.1678475331101; Fri, 10 Mar 2023 11:08:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?IPV6:2a00:1370:8180:6b00:a1a8:4887:1af4:637a? ([2a00:1370:8180:6b00:a1a8:4887:1af4:637a]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id bf37-20020a2eaa25000000b002946be8475esm95843ljb.135.2023.03.10.11.08.50 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 10 Mar 2023 11:08:50 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <660ef0b7-fb09-5a72-57b1-3b57ddee924e@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 22:08:49 +0300 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: patches@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.6.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: delete driver Content-Language: en-US To: Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-staging@lists.linux.dev Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, patches@lists.linux.dev, Hans de Goede , Martin Kaiser , Larry Finger , Phillip Potter References: <20230308131934.380395-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> From: Pavel Skripkin In-Reply-To: <20230308131934.380395-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Greg, Greg Kroah-Hartman says: > Now that the same hardware that the r8188eu driver supported is > supported by the real wireless driver rtl8xxxu, the r8188eu driver can > be deleted. > > Also the rtl8xxxu driver supports way more devices, and is a fraction of > the overall size, making this a much better overall solution. > > Thanks to the r8188eu developers and maintainers and reviewers over the > years, your work allowed Linux users to use their hardware before the > real driver was implemented properly. > > Reported-by: Hans de Goede > Cc: Martin Kaiser > Cc: Larry Finger > Cc: Phillip Potter > Cc: Pavel Skripkin > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > --- I guess, I am late to the party, but if it matters Acked-by: Pavel Skripkin With regards, Pavel Skripkin