From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, punit vara <punitvara@gmail.com>
Cc: 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: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 21:44:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56245902.7070202@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151019020020.GB8496@kroah.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-19 2:44 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 [this message]
2015-10-19 15:21 ` punit vara
2015-10-22 19:04 ` punit vara
2015-10-22 19:14 ` Greg KH
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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