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[87.147.86.199]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id mr8-20020a170907828800b009adc5802d08sm2591566ejc.190.2023.10.15.11.42.02 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 15 Oct 2023 11:42:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <08e266b5-cc6f-4428-bb50-11122a174e94@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2023 20:42:01 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] wireless: move obsolete drivers to staging To: Arnd Bergmann , Arnd Bergmann , Kalle Valo , Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Nicolas Ferre , Alexandre Belloni , Claudiu Beznea , Jakub Kicinski , Pavel Machek , "David S . Miller" , Larry Finger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev References: <20231010155444.858483-1-arnd@kernel.org> Content-Language: en-US From: Philipp Hortmann In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org 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