From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Jerry-RealtekFAE <jerry-chuang@realtek.com>,
Gauss Frank <gaussfrank@gmail.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
wlanfae <wlanfae@realtek.com>,
Florian Schilhabel <florian.c.schilhabel@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: Hi,Linus Torvalds. There's a problem in r8192u driver in Linux new kernel.
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:31:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100820033112.GA5821@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C6DEF52.6050407@lwfinger.net>
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 09:58:26PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 08/19/2010 07:15 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 05:37:09PM +0800, Jerry-RealtekFAE wrote:
> >> Dear Sir/Madam
> >>
> >> Please find the RTL8192U latest Linux driver in the attachment.
> >> Please try it on Kernel 2.6.35-1 again.
> >
> > Could you send patches updating the in-kernel version of this driver to
> > your latest version? That would help everyone out in the end.
>
> I have a copy of the driver that Realtek calls the r8712 for the RTL8192 USB
> devices. All of the dead code and the unneeded configuration sections have been
> removed. It will be submitted to staging as soon as Realtek signs off on the
> copyright info. For some reason, it has taken them several weeks and I still
> have no answer. This new driver is stable - the connection stays up for days. I
> expect that it will replace the current one in staging.
Wonderful, that's great news.
Jerry, any word on getting the copyright sign off moved along?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-20 3:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <AANLkTi=1NaRKc8QrQBGwU+c_17D86_Cqu9MopR_rso0H@mail.gmail.com>
2010-08-12 16:06 ` Hi,Linus Torvalds. There's a problem in r8192u driver in Linux new kernel Linus Torvalds
2010-08-12 16:19 ` Greg KH
[not found] ` <76C6BFFEAAA24679B55CBB186C084833@cnfaec24b87a3f>
2010-08-20 0:15 ` Greg KH
2010-08-20 2:58 ` Larry Finger
2010-08-20 3:31 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-08-12 16:36 ` Larry Finger
2010-09-18 4:58 ` Paul Thomas
[not found] ` <AANLkTi=SL_tCO4k071KZxawch90NqdnGFMaqy_uqPTHA@mail.gmail.com>
2010-09-18 20:18 ` Paul Thomas
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