Re: staging: No option to select rtl8192su in linux-2.6.33-rc2

[Frederic Leroy <fredo@starox.org>]

Le Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:38:35 +0000,
Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com> a écrit :

> "nobody cares" is not entirely true - AFAIK, code in the staging area
> is unreliable/unsuitable/"poor" code which serves the sole purpose of
> being there for scavenging and references for re-write (because there
> is no equivalent functionality, even alleged, in mainline); so people
> looking at the staging code for ideas or references is welcomed. It is
> just that there is no hints of any support or vague guarantee that any
> of it works for any fitness of purpose. i.e. patches which fix
> problems, or migrate functionality out of the staging area to
> main-line, are welcomed, but questions and request for help on
> understanding or making any of it work, are not.

I just bought an wireless usb key based on realtek 8192. If nobody is
working on making a driver for it, I'd like to try.

But I am wondering where/how to start.

Should I follow the TODO file from Greg in staging :
( which seems to merge : rtl8192e  rtl8192su  rtl8192u )

TODO:
- prepare private ieee80211 stack for merge with rtl8187se's version:
  - remove rtl8192su's specific dead code
  - cleanup ieee80211.h
  - move rtl8192su's specific code out from ieee80211.h
  - abstract rtl819su's specific code
  - use list_for_each_safe() in ieee80211_crypto_deinit
- switch to use shared "librtl" instead of private ieee80211 stack
- switch to use LIB80211
- switch to use MAC80211
- switch to use EEPROM_93CX6
- use kernel coding style
- checkpatch.pl fixes
- sparse fixes
- integrate with drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x

Or use rtl818x tree to start a new device ?

-- 
Frédéric Leroy