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[2003:d5:ff01:1300:50f4:96ff:fe46:beef]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a640c23a62f3a-a9e566843b0sm431466066b.212.2024.11.03.07.10.48 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sun, 03 Nov 2024 07:10:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.daheim ([127.0.0.1]) by shift.daheim with esmtp (Exim 4.98) (envelope-from ) id 1t7cFb-00000002Nzh-40r9; Sun, 03 Nov 2024 16:10:47 +0100 Message-ID: <15435fb5-ae39-407d-b022-93bbe9e14fab@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2024 16:10:47 +0100 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8712: Remove driver using deprecated API wext To: Nam Cao , Philipp Hortmann Cc: Florian Schilhabel , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Driver Project Developer List , Kalle Valo , Jakub Kicinski , Johannes Berg , Arnd Bergmann , =?UTF-8?Q?Dominik_Karol_Pi=C4=85tkowski?= , Xingquan Liu , Tudor Gheorghiu , Ping-Ke Shih , Manisha Singh , Dorine Tipo , Tchadel Icard , Felix Yan , Moon Yeounsu , Dan Carpenter , Roshan Khatri , Andy Shevchenko References: <20241020144933.10956-1-philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com> <20241030093830.QSofC7Cl@linutronix.de> Content-Language: de-DE From: Christian Lamparter In-Reply-To: <20241030093830.QSofC7Cl@linutronix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 10/30/24 10:38 AM, Nam Cao wrote: > On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 04:49:29PM +0200, Philipp Hortmann wrote: >> This driver is in the staging area since 2010. >> >> The following reasons lead to the removal: >> - This driver generates maintenance workload for itself and for API wext >> - A MAC80211 driver was available in 2016 time frame; This driver does >> not compile anymore but would be a better starting point than the >> current driver. Here the note from the TODO file: >> A replacement for this driver with MAC80211 support is available >> at https://github.com/chunkeey/rtl8192su >> - no progress changing to mac80211 >> - Using this hardware is security wise not state of the art as WPA3 is >> not supported. >> >> The longterm kernels will still support this hardware for years. >> >> Find further discussions in the Link below. >> >> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-staging/a02e3e0b-8a9b-47d5-87cf-2c957a474daa@gmail.com/T/#t > > I added owner of that "replacement driver" to CC: > Christian Lamparter > > I vaguely remembered that he mentioned the replacement driver doesn't work > very well. But can't find that email again. ... and neither did r8712u. what lives on is the OpenBSD port: and the firmware: rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin in linux-firmware.git: Cheers, Christian