From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from galois.linutronix.de (Galois.linutronix.de [193.142.43.55]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 81BF71D3578 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2024 09:38:34 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=193.142.43.55 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1730281116; cv=none; b=k633vuqIAji+S8Ph27zrUKPGxZE4b/7TwtjbX57mgJJKFDyadLkUIBshc/6gRyNW6SinWLpy6AC0JfCeIbCStOL4kEg7reD2bGvj5CU0SlnL/88tdfWfP8kJiqjBlG7mDg9Pw1mU0JQkX9+h+cxufAHzLwIZ25kozZaUxbVs/NA= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1730281116; c=relaxed/simple; bh=bBqDyHLK1vWpbzc4gSQ4P20VPpoRWihqbMxmBhK7XP4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=Bk/YtlU78odTimK8IjbjLZFtm0BUr2ScXz/uXLIPJO5b0EDf82Cd+nPCMWF4OKzy6aFqjyKxFYCEkMhhwPX3R9R/36V/M8uWIoCftPpAYRFIVSqzLIZMyC9NUNrmkVY1H8UFZzuDXfB408Qf1VkE1GtDsJ8KbP5esk5dVdXXGPo= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=linutronix.de; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linutronix.de; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=linutronix.de header.i=@linutronix.de header.b=PPS5OmUT; dkim=permerror (0-bit key) header.d=linutronix.de header.i=@linutronix.de header.b=DZOdZhaZ; arc=none smtp.client-ip=193.142.43.55 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=linutronix.de Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linutronix.de Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=linutronix.de header.i=@linutronix.de header.b="PPS5OmUT"; dkim=permerror (0-bit key) header.d=linutronix.de header.i=@linutronix.de header.b="DZOdZhaZ" Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 10:38:30 +0100 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linutronix.de; s=2020; t=1730281112; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=TmbuJ8tIL0U0CXQgiEtrGS9NH/UsX6GKwzkR8vLmdOY=; b=PPS5OmUTStezmCawOKnBMHnewKSlKMXeTiCvWGbabgx1Hef8pIRkFy18kRWnT3Wt5fiPkY mIRF0Bw6KJecwAIChQJbBek05J5E5MmznHblnxfxXqAvYEpY9ua4Gq3bX96N3AdAcrQTlJ kMuZQIKddG4QFnG54le2YoPvFzaWtc7K7LauO+mudy4hwUx6S+dQlEFKiqtHN2XJrxoW4F Yr7AihtmIAjTssxom/OaNPKJ57GtZTX+/RvfPi5EACUOmKLAWPIQFdntLR+pun8m7McU4j nHV3k7sL5Fwpwhx+Lzn/gFSFftvCLZLkIi0463MAIs4fwkCXS7s1ao20gY3ABg== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=ed25519-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linutronix.de; s=2020e; t=1730281112; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=TmbuJ8tIL0U0CXQgiEtrGS9NH/UsX6GKwzkR8vLmdOY=; b=DZOdZhaZeHytsofQoHf/wBsN01A1Ej43ZNjmfQct5VsSi5+1uq06LLRoZh738Df6AtU8ZK iI2vKiGFr57kwDCg== From: Nam Cao To: 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 , Larry Finger , Arnd Bergmann , Dominik Karol =?utf-8?Q?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 , Christian Lamparter Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8712: Remove driver using deprecated API wext Message-ID: <20241030093830.QSofC7Cl@linutronix.de> References: <20241020144933.10956-1-philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20241020144933.10956-1-philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com> 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. Nam