Re: [PATCH 00/12] rtlwifi: rtl8192se: Merge new driver

[Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>]

On 05/03/2011 04:09 PM, Gábor Stefanik wrote:
> 2011/5/3 Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>:
>> On 05/03/2011 03:38 PM, Gábor Stefanik wrote:
>>>
>>> 2011/5/3 Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>:
>>>>
>>>> On 05/03/2011 03:19 PM, Gábor Stefanik wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
>>>>>   wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 05/03/2011 10:59 AM, Walter Goldens wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This set of patches introduces a driver for the RTL8192SE PCI
>>>>>>>> devices.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Any estimates on the *SU driver? :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Now that rtl8192se is submitted, I will start work on the driver for
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> RTL8192DE devices. After that will be the RTL8191SU. It has lower
>>>>>> priority
>>>>>> because r8712u from staging handles those devices. It is not based on
>>>>>> mac80211, but it works.
>>>>>
>>>>> Again, may I remind you that the preferred behavior in the Linux world
>>>>> is release-early, release-often? :-)
>>>>
>>>> That I know, but "code first" still applies. If the comparison between
>>>> rtl8192ce and rtl8192cu has any validity for the rtl8192s varieties,
>>>> roughly
>>>> half of this driver will be shared. In addition, we do have all the USB
>>>> plumbing in place, but we are still talking about a few thousand lines of
>>>> code. At last contact, Realtek has no interest in this project, thus I
>>>> will
>>>> be on my own.
>>>>
>>>> Larry
>>>
>>> I do not mean immediately submitting everything for inclusion -
>>> however, a publicly accessible Git tree would be nice. A non-rtlwifi,
>>> badly coded but functional and GPL-compatible driver is still better
>>> than having to use ndiswrapper/load a binary blob.
>>
>> We are in better shape than having to use ndiswrapper or any non-GPL code.
>> The r8712u driver in staging is for the RTL8192SU, and it works perfectly
>> well.
>
> What about RTL8192DE?

I'm working on that one today. If all goes well, it might make 2.6.40, but that 
may be a little tight on time. Publish early and often does apply here.

Larry