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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: punit vara <punitvara@gmail.com>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>,
	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] Staging: rtl8712: fix warning for placing constant on the right side of test
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 12:14:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151022191422.GA26818@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABXAfN+EHWki=BwTcx7tHzyxKo509jMM7eT5WzYVNXYAg2NvVw@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 12:34:36AM +0530, punit vara wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 8:51 PM, punit vara <punitvara@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
> >> On 10/18/2015 09:00 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 12:02:53PM +0530, punit vara wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> One more thing I would like suggestion how can start switching this
> >>>> driver to LIB80211 ,MAC80211 ? Which is the first file I should focus
> >>>> ? Simultaneously I am trying to understand the flow of driver . I
> >>>> would like to know the start point  from where I can start doing small
> >>>> changes.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> If you don't understand the wireless stack, I suggest you do some
> >>> research on it first, converting a driver to the in-kernel stack is a
> >>> _very_ difficult thing and not something that someone without any
> >>> experience in this area is going to be able to do easily.
> >>
> >>
> >> I second this suggestion. Your skill level is not nearly sufficient for this
> >> sort of task. Note that there is a group working on driver rtl8192su, which
> >> should be able to replace rtl8712u. The participants are very highly skilled
> >> wireless developers; however, they are having trouble. The internals of the
> >> Realtek chips are not revealed to anyone in any form other than the code
> >> they release.
> >>
> >> Larry
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > Thank you Larry  ,Tillman , Greg for your valuable suggestions. I am
> > interested to learn wireless stack .I have already read wireless wiki
> > documentation , sort of rtl8712 code , cfg80112  APIs . Yeah I agree
> > with you Greg and Larry that its _very_ difficult to thing to convert
> > driver in kernel and also rtl8712 has more files compare to others.
> > Anyway however difficult or tough it may be but I have to go through
> > it once to become highly skilled or good engineer . I would give it a
> > try even if I will fail I believe at least 1% of my knowledge will be
> > improved . More suggestions are welcome.
> >
> > I have did
> >
> > git remote add gregkh
> > http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git
> >
> > git pull gregkh
> >
> > git rebase my_local_branch
> >
> > I have got some conflicts .I can solve them but they are too many . I
> > am trying to solve it . After that I will soon resend this patch.
> >
> > Thanks
> 
> @Greg KH
> I am working on linux-next .I have tried to rebase my local branch on
> your staging tree but I am getting too many conflict .and I have tried
> to clone your staging tree separately but due slow internet I am
> unable to clone it fully . Is there any other way I can get your
> staging tree by downloading ?

git.kernel.org is the only location, sorry.

Try starting with a "clean" version of Linus's tree and just add a
branch for my tree, it should be quite a small download.

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-22 19:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-14 18:25 [PATCH RESEND 0/4] Staging: rtl8712: Fix coding style warnings Punit Vara
2015-10-14 18:25 ` [PATCH RESEND 1/4] Staging: rtl8712: Fix warning prefer eth_broadcast_addr() over memset() Punit Vara
2015-10-14 18:25 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] Staging: rtl8712: Use ether_addr_equal() over memcmp() Punit Vara
2015-10-14 18:25 ` [PATCH RESEND 3/4] Staging: rtl8712: Coding style warnings fix for block comments Punit Vara
2015-10-14 18:25 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] Staging: rtl8712: fix warning for placing constant on the right side of test Punit Vara
2015-10-17  5:16   ` Greg KH
2015-10-18  6:32     ` punit vara
2015-10-18 18:54       ` Tillmann Heidsieck
2015-10-18 19:14         ` Tillmann Heidsieck
2015-10-19  2:00       ` Greg KH
2015-10-19  2:44         ` Larry Finger
2015-10-19 15:21           ` punit vara
2015-10-22 19:04             ` punit vara
2015-10-22 19:14               ` Greg KH [this message]
2015-10-22 19:22               ` Dan Carpenter
2015-10-22 20:03                 ` punit vara
2015-10-22 20:34                   ` Dan Carpenter
2015-10-24  7:11                     ` punit vara

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