From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-ed1-f50.google.com (mail-ed1-f50.google.com [209.85.208.50]) (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 CB9AA36D; Wed, 8 Mar 2023 22:36:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ed1-f50.google.com with SMTP id i34so71833472eda.7; Wed, 08 Mar 2023 14:36:05 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20210112; t=1678314964; h=content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:from:content-language :references:cc:to:subject:user-agent:mime-version:date:message-id :from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=jzDf4+4sG/Th13nL0Nk+rTjw3K6s3TCf1TZrS78TwVk=; b=TKYPU3ZRnNzZcIrmpbFdrOELb3qHa4Mmd5uxjy5Awp0yXXXvcwOqQf7P4LJRy6hkvm 356DfYqVabeiY6tfx37KrcRPlwazFBeFFB9Tfnx+EGs0XQr2QklDBe15O3uLbQEeDkAH JmAbzE6hh+DjMf80YADuMmOQEB+qci9YSSMdgo0AIOXb5GeAeoAx5z2V/5hfke90LAtN 4HhBVyxVkWoEeVADYD4Ktn11RWIcpUdql83m+s3RlPW/v5kQ1tvko9IhKGHHdQcs5GRS tH19/5tiBmopZIsq2eiEuXXp73MF6ezkSL6HYF1SHmoSgQJ7NYIHmtkVH/LK0IG3dBK1 7Lsg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; t=1678314964; h=content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:from:content-language :references:cc:to:subject:user-agent:mime-version:date:message-id :x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=jzDf4+4sG/Th13nL0Nk+rTjw3K6s3TCf1TZrS78TwVk=; b=v449lZ5i+rxjYap1bKcrZtO1TPq37dZe0LMBhom125r98H5Zeaq4TEgAstuX/Qp+7O tVtU8braG0Gbyo/qt3VCuFqCgaa05EyNlvbtXR7KMvSRO8AeyQRTz7HFtW1ft0fba1zb 1shlAIect1BrQtgghCq0Bjh8I9GfRkDibJC9GCJG8OB9aesv1pRHNo604diiGcPh6f1K 0dZU2AoGOe2GIwr6QHRW9BkwskltJ+HW9kFJ8+6FuuO342ppCuZwHPxgZY0TTiv4ujZ3 AKL0Wt9F2qq8bssUjRCSoUWa3eUOAS/MJzmpfXpucKzqy5hWjum6ZhwEXvTgH22J7Dsl 2a4A== X-Gm-Message-State: AO0yUKWJ+XoBO0rbj8dgmUETKXdNccOWV8IoN4erAYDCh8M3bMuDbmrK eaqXFCG+yRmsPU0sbR0FV1Q= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AK7set/8kMxm9e7Ww76G9dAgDiHgWhS+pXwdbv/atF+1sdRH7bnZyj6ZiiACFFD6T7xTA7L5lspPLA== X-Received: by 2002:a17:907:7748:b0:8e8:6b69:2093 with SMTP id kx8-20020a170907774800b008e86b692093mr22362157ejc.25.1678314963862; Wed, 08 Mar 2023 14:36:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.151] (ip5f5abbd3.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de. [95.90.187.211]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id q1-20020a50c341000000b004bbb691a334sm8862127edb.2.2023.03.08.14.36.03 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 08 Mar 2023 14:36:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <9e4d7f04-3114-8240-341b-1fff5ae69b0b@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2023 23:36:02 +0100 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-staging@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/102.8.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: delete driver 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 , Pavel Skripkin References: <20230308131934.380395-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Content-Language: en-US From: Michael Straube In-Reply-To: <20230308131934.380395-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 3/8/23 14:19, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > 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 > --- The rtl8xxxu driver works well for me. Acked-by: Michael Straube