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

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 11:44:56PM +0100, Frederic Leroy wrote:
> 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

This is a reasonable plan overall, although I might quibble with
the order.

> Or use rtl818x tree to start a new device ?

YMMV, but given the code I've seen for the Realtek drivers in staging I
might be inclined to start by forking rtl8180 and making the necessary
hardware changes from there.

Hth!

John
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