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Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 08:35:43 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] staging: rtl8192u: Fix two crashing bugs
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On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 08:02:58AM +0200, Philipp Hortmann wrote:
> Question: Fix or remove rtl8192u?

We should remove it if it's obviously broken and no one has reported it
in a very long time.

> I found a USB WLAN Stick with a rtl8192u. I got it last Saturday and 
> found out that the firmware is missing in my ubuntu 20.04. I found it on 
> the web and fixed it. When I started the driver my computer crashed. The 
> missing part was: priv->priv_wq = alloc_workqueue("priv_wq", 0, 0); 
> Fixing this the next error was a network = kzalloc(sizeof(*network), 
> GFP_KERNEL); in wrong context which leads to a crash of my computer. 
> Fixing this the next error is more depending on what I do with the stick.
> 
> When lucky the connection is build up and I can surf and download at maximum speed (12,5MB/s) several gigabytes.

Do you want to keep it here so that you can maintain it and keep it
working?

thanks,

greg k-h