Re: r92su: status and will it be merged anytime soon?

[Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>]

On Monday, November 04, 2013 09:34:28 AM you wrote:
> On 11/04/2013 08:17 AM, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> > Christian Lamparter wrote:
> >
> >> The issue with r92su is: The driver is ready, but it's fundamentally
> >                                        ^^^^^^^^
> >> incompatible with the rtlwifi framework and mac80211.
> >
> > _anything_ is better than a staging driver.
> >
> > There are distributions that don't build staging drivers.
> 
> As a result, they force their users to build out-of-tree drivers!
> 
> > So, please, replace and delete staging/rtl8712 with r92su.
> 
> You seem not to understand. Any new wireless driver that does not use mac80211 
> *must* go into staging. AFAIK, that rule is absolute, and r92su cannot go into 
> the regular wireless tree.

Be careful ;-). mac80211 is great for softmac/umac/halfmac/semimac devices.
However the rtl8712 firmware interface is fullmac-like, so it needs cfg80211.
... and r92su uses cfg80211 exclusively. There's no more WEXT or realtek ioctl
legacy API support.

Regards,

Christian