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

[Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>]

On 11/04/2013 04:34 PM, Larry Finger wrote:

>> _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!

reformulating: As a result, they force their users to _have a stable kernel_

Staging is only a working area. And the rtl8712-TODO is unreal:
- merge Realtek's bugfixes and new features into the driver
- switch to use LIB80211
- switch to use MAC80211
- checkpatch.pl fixes - only a few remain

>> 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.

Who said that ? Then replace staging/rtl8712 with staging/r92su

Anyway, r92su is a _linux_ driver with a cfg80211 interface.
staging/rtl8712 is crap?

1152k    drivers/staging/rtl8712/
340k     r92su/

> 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.

Nobody said that you have to write a rtl8712-mac80211.
But right now there is a better alternative, and it should be used.