From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>,
alexandre.f.demers@gmail.com, linville@tuxdriver.com
Subject: Re: r92su: status and will it be merged anytime soon?
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 09:34:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5277BE84.7020808@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5277AC85.5050104@gmail.com>
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.
If you do not like having drivers for RTL8192SU in staging, then write one that
uses mac80211. You have access to as much information about the chips as anyone
outside Realtek. They have no interest in doing the mac80211 version, and I have
many other tasks with higher priority.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-04 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-04 14:17 r92su: status and will it be merged anytime soon? Xose Vazquez Perez
2013-11-04 14:21 ` Johannes Berg
2013-11-04 15:34 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2013-11-04 15:47 ` Christian Lamparter
2013-11-04 16:04 ` Johannes Berg
2013-11-04 16:15 ` Joshua Roys
2013-11-04 16:19 ` Christian Lamparter
2013-11-04 18:32 ` Johannes Berg
2013-11-04 19:10 ` Alexandre Demers
2013-11-04 16:06 ` Xose Vazquez Perez
2013-11-04 16:22 ` Larry Finger
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-11-02 20:19 Alexandre Demers
2013-11-02 21:50 ` Christian Lamparter
2013-11-02 21:53 ` Larry Finger
2013-11-02 22:36 ` Alexandre Demers
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