From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753798Ab3HVRXF (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:23:05 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:44130 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753254Ab3HVRXE (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:23:04 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 10:23:02 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Larry Finger Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT 00/33] Add new staging driver for RTL8188EU Message-ID: <20130822172302.GA23442@kroah.com> References: <1377142455-9204-1-git-send-email-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1377142455-9204-1-git-send-email-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 Looks good enough to me, now applied, thanks for doing this work! greg k-h