Getting started on switching rtl8188eu staging driver to LIB80211/MAC80211

Getting started on switching rtl8188eu staging driver to LIB80211/MAC80211

[Sreenath Madasu]

Hi all,
I want to work on the TODO tasks

- switch to use LIB80211
- switch to use MAC80211

for staging driver rtl8188eu.

How can I start? Where is the documentation?
Thanks
Sreenath

Re: Getting started on switching rtl8188eu staging driver to LIB80211/MAC80211

[Larry Finger]

On 08/23/2015 06:40 PM, Sreenath Madasu wrote:
> Hi all,
> I want to work on the TODO tasks
>
> - switch to use LIB80211
> - switch to use MAC80211
>
> for staging driver rtl8188eu.
>
> How can I start? Where is the documentation?

There is no specific documentation for this device, only what is available in 
the mac80211, cfg80211, and nl80211 code. You could also look at the drivers in 
drivers/net/wireless/ for ideas. The driver must be rewritten. You could 
consider Jes Sorensen's work on producing a mac80211 driver for the RTL8723AU 
that has been posted on this mailing list. He started with a Realtek USB driver 
that is similar to r8188eu.

Larry

Re: Getting started on switching rtl8188eu staging driver to LIB80211/MAC80211

[Sreenath Madasu]

Thanks Larry,
I will look at those drivers
Sreenath
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 09:42:42AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 08/23/2015 06:40 PM, Sreenath Madasu wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I want to work on the TODO tasks
> >
> > - switch to use LIB80211
> > - switch to use MAC80211
> >
> > for staging driver rtl8188eu.
> >
> > How can I start? Where is the documentation?
> 
> There is no specific documentation for this device, only what is available in 
> the mac80211, cfg80211, and nl80211 code. You could also look at the drivers in 
> drivers/net/wireless/ for ideas. The driver must be rewritten. You could 
> consider Jes Sorensen's work on producing a mac80211 driver for the RTL8723AU 
> that has been posted on this mailing list. He started with a Realtek USB driver 
> that is similar to r8188eu.
> 
> Larry
> 
> 

Re: Getting started on switching rtl8188eu staging driver to LIB80211/MAC80211

[Hans Ulli Kroll]

Hi

On Sun, 23 Aug 2015, Sreenath Madasu wrote:

> Hi all,
> I want to work on the TODO tasks
> 
> - switch to use LIB80211
> - switch to use MAC80211
> 
> for staging driver rtl8188eu.
> 
> How can I start? Where is the documentation?
> Thanks
> Sreenath
> 

I have the same problems with my RTL8821AU driver.
But I'm currently switching to rtlwifi-lib and of course 
LIB80211/MAC80211.

Take the rtl8188ee as an example to rewrite/rename all functions in 
hal/
os_dep/

You can also look at my repo at
github.com/ulli-kroll/rtl8821au.git

Greeting form Cologne
Hasn Ulli Kroll


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