RE: [PATCH] wifi: rtl8xxxu: add more missing rtl8192cu USB IDs

[Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>]

Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 18-Nov-24 3:23 AM, Ping-Ke Shih wrote:
> > Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The rtl8xxxu has all the rtl8192cu USB IDs from rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/sw.c
> >> except for the following 10, add these to the untested section so they
> >> can be used with the rtl8xxxu as the rtl8192cu are well supported.
> >>
> >> This fixes these wifi modules not working on distributions which have
> >> disabled CONFIG_RTL8192CU replacing it with CONFIG_RTL8XXXU_UNTESTED,
> >> like Fedora.
> >>
> >> Closes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2321540
> >> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> >> Cc: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
> >> Reviewed-by: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com>
> >
> > 1 patch(es) applied to rtw-next branch of rtw.git, thanks.
> >
> > 31be3175bd7b wifi: rtl8xxxu: add more missing rtl8192cu USB IDs
> 
> Thank you for merging this, since this is a bugfix patch, see e.g. :
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2321540
> 
> I was expecting this patch to show up in 6.13-rc1 but it does
> not appear to be there.
> 
> Can you please include this in a fixes-pull-request to the network
> maintainer so that gets added to a 6.13-rc# release soon and then
> can be backported to various stable kernels ?
> 

This patch stays in rtw.git and 6.14 will have it, and then drain to stable
trees. For the redhat users, could you ask the distro maintainer to take this
patch ahead? 

Ping-Ke