From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Perches Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT 00/27] Updates for the rtlwifi family of drivers Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:26:53 -0800 Message-ID: <1361849213.2023.9.camel@joe-AO722> References: <1361837619-2985-1-git-send-email-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> <1361845357.2023.7.camel@joe-AO722> <512C264A.3000104@lwfinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linville-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org, linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, jcheung-IBi9RG/b67k@public.gmane.org, machen-IBi9RG/b67k@public.gmane.org, mmarek-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org To: Larry Finger Return-path: In-Reply-To: <512C264A.3000104-tQ5ms3gMjBLk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 21:04 -0600, Larry Finger wrote: > On 02/25/2013 08:22 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 18:13 -0600, Larry Finger wrote: > >> This set of patches upgrades drivers rtlwifi, rtl8192c, rtl8192ce, rtl8192se, > >> and rtl8723ae to the state of the vendor driver issued on 2013.02.07. In > >> addition, a new driver for the RTL8188EE chip is added to the kernel. > >> > >> Note: These patches do not upgrade rtl8192de. Those changes will be sent > >> later. > > > > rtl8188e isn't very kernel stylish. > > Looking at it briefly, in fact it's kind of ugly. > > > > Could/should it go into staging? > > It is uglier than I had hoped. I was not quite ready to push it yet, but I got > some pressure from outside, non-Realtek, sources that a kernel version was > needed. They will, in fact, start their integration from the RFC/RFT version. > > The main problem with having it in staging is that we will either have to > include headers from drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/, or duplicate them in the > drivers/staging/rtl8188ee/ directory where keeping them compatible will be a > hassle. Neither solution sounds optimum to me. Perhaps adding a CFLAGS -I include path to a staging Makefile would work instead. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html