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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andrew Miller <amiller@amilx.com>,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: rtl8187se: r8180_core.c: Fix coding style issue
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:09:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F600BF3.2080001@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331693187.27389.33.camel@joe2Laptop>

On 03/13/2012 09:46 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 22:33 -0400, Andrew Miller wrote:
>> Thanks, you help me alot
>>
>> If you don't mind me asking a few more question.
>>
>> Would fixing things like this
>>
>> - if(x==y)
>> + if(x == y)
>>
>> be worthless?
>
> I don't work on staging code.
>
> I believe the staging rtl8187se directory could be
> deleted as there is a working mainline directory
> for the 8187 (drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187)
> so you may not actually be adding anything of value.
>
> I don't know if the 8187se is supported by the 8187
> code but likely Larry Finger (cc'd) knows better.

Driver rtl8187 handles USB devices - the RTL8187SE is PCI based - thus separate 
drivers are needed. I have done a lot of the conversion of a mac80211-based 
driver for the RTL8187SE, but ran into a problem where it could transmit small 
packets, but fail completely for longer ones. While trying to fix that, I needed 
to work on devices that had no Linux driver, and I have not gotten back to it.

Larry


  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-14  3:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-14  0:58 [PATCH] Staging: rtl8187se: r8180_core.c: Fix coding style issue Andrew Miller
2012-03-14  1:33 ` Joe Perches
2012-03-14  1:49   ` Andrew Miller
2012-03-14  2:12     ` Joe Perches
2012-03-14  2:33       ` Andrew Miller
2012-03-14  2:46         ` Joe Perches
2012-03-14  3:09           ` Larry Finger [this message]
2012-03-14  2:54         ` Greg KH
2012-03-14  4:18   ` Ryan Mallon
2012-03-14  4:49     ` Joe Perches
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-03-11  4:32 Andrew Miller
2012-03-13 22:42 ` Greg KH

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