Re: overlap of devices in rtl8xxxu and rtl8192cu

[Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>]

Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> writes:
> Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>> There is overlap of devices between rtl8xxxu and rtl8192cu:
>>> USB_VENDER_ID_REALTEK, 0x8176
>>> USB_VENDER_ID_REALTEK, 0x8178
>>> USB_VENDER_ID_REALTEK, 0x817f
>>> 0x7392, 0x7811
>>
>> Yes
>
> What, are you saying that you didn't fix that? I did say in the last
> review round that we should not have duplicated device entries within
> drivers/net/wireless and I assumed you took care of that.
>
>> and there is also a clash with USB IDs between
>> drivers/staging/rtl8192u and drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi -
>> this is nothing new.
>
> We should do things properly in under drivers/, I don't care what
> happens in staging and that's no excuse to do things badly.

As I explained earlier, there is no way I can do that unless we remove
rtlwifi's rtl8192cu driver and that cannot happen due to the feature
differences. There are plenty of other conflicts and this is not a bug.

In other words I *have* done things correctly here, and Xose's complaint
is bogus.

Jes