Re: overlap of devices in rtl8xxxu and rtl8192cu

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

Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com> writes:
> Kalle Valo wrote:
>
>>> From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
>>> 
>>> This is an alternate driver for a number of Realtek WiFi USB devices,
>>> including RTL8723AU, RTL8188CU, RTL8188RU, RTL8191CU, and RTL8192CU.
>>> It was written from scratch utilizing the Linux mac80211 stack.
>>> 
>>> After spending months cleaning up the vendor provided rtl8723au
>>> driver, which comes with it's own 802.11 stack included, I decided to
>>> rewrite this driver from the bottom up.
>>> 
>>> Many thanks to Johannes Berg for 802.11 insights and help and Larry
>>> Finger for help with the vendor driver.
>>> 
>>> The full git log for the development of this driver can be found here:
>>> git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jes/linux.git
>>>     branch rtl8723au-mac80211
>>> 
>>> This driver is still under development, but has proven to be very
>>> stable for me. It currently supports station mode only. It has support
>>> for OFDM and CCK rates. It does lack certain features found in the
>>> staging driver, such as power management, AMPDU, and 40MHz channel
>>> support. In addition it does not support AD-HOC, AP, and monitor mode
>>> support at this point.
>>> 
>>> The driver is known to work with the following devices:
>>> Lenovo Yoga (rtl8723au)
>>> TP-Link TL-WN823N (rtl8192cu)
>>> Etekcity 6R (rtl8188cu)
>>> Daffodil LAN03 (rtl8188cu)
>>> Alfa AWUS036NHR (rtl8188ru)
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
>> 
>> Thanks, applied to wireless-drivers-next.git.
>
> 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, and there is also a clash with USB IDs between
drivers/staging/rtl8192u and drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi - this
is nothing new.

Jes