Re: [PATCH] [RFC] wireless: move obsolete drivers to staging

Philipp Hortmann
2023-10-15T18:42:04Z

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?

Thanks

Bye Philipp