From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT 00/33] Add new staging driver for RTL8188EU
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 10:23:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130822172302.GA23442@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1377142455-9204-1-git-send-email-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:33:42PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> Initially, the only Linux driver for the RTL8188EU chips incorporated
> in devices such as the TP-Link TL-WN725N was one sent to me privately
> by the Realtek engineers with permission to submit it to the Linux kernel.
> Not only did it have limited availability, this version fails to build on
> kernels 3.10 and newer.
>
> As an initial step, I fixed the Realtek version to build on all kernels,
> and submitted that code to http://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu.git.
> This fixed the build and availability problems; however, the problems
> associated with building an out-of-kernel driver remain. During the past
> few months, I converted the code into a form suitable for Linux, and
> pushed those changes to that repo. I now believe it is time to submit
> it to drivers/staging.
>
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Looks good enough to me, now applied, thanks for doing this work!
greg k-h
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