From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Andrea Merello <andrea.merello@gmail.com>
Cc: wlanfae@realtek.com, shwei <shwei@realtek.com.tw>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Subject: Re: RTL8187SE staging Linux driver
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:56:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130910165606.GB1960@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN8YU5NTKUtS8+YzmcOSM3=YUX-FSwLTD86F_hXsNdVkw5NEGA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 05:59:54PM +0200, Andrea Merello wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As you probably know, in the current Linux kernel there is a staging
> driver for the RTL8187SE device (based on my older RTL8180/RTL8185
> Linux driver), while there also a regular (not staging) driver
> supporting older RTL8185 and RTL8180 devices
> (net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180) .
>
> As far as I can see, the RTL8187SE device seems not so much different
> from an RTL8185 device.
> I would like to try (in my spare time) to add support for RTL8187SE
> device in the current RTL818x driver, in order to avoid code
> duplication, remove a driver from staging, and make RTL8187SE using
> mac80211.
>
> Do any one of you have any comment/objection/suggestions about this ?
I would be extremely happy for you to tackle this.
> Is it possible to get the RTL8187SE documentation to make things easier?
This info used to be readily available. If you can't find a source, I
probably still have a (mildly useful) datasheet somewhere in my heap...
> For now I will probably keep different RF code for the two cards even
> if the RTL8225 (zebra 2) radio is used by both RTL8187SE and some
> RTL8185 devices, however if I could get enough documentation about it,
> it would be great to try to merge also RF code..
>
> Thank you,
> Andrea
Seems reasonable...
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-10 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-10 15:59 RTL8187SE staging Linux driver Andrea Merello
2013-09-10 16:56 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2013-09-10 17:35 ` Larry Finger
2013-09-11 6:11 ` Andrea Merello
2014-01-14 17:40 ` Andrea Merello
2014-01-14 21:50 ` Larry Finger
2014-01-15 16:11 ` Larry Finger
2014-01-15 17:22 ` Andrea Merello
2014-01-15 17:42 ` Larry Finger
2014-01-15 18:41 ` Andrea Merello
2014-01-15 18:43 ` Andrea Merello
2014-01-15 20:29 ` Larry Finger
2014-01-20 21:48 ` Andrea Merello
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