Hi On Tuesday 15 November 2011, Sean MacLennan wrote: > This patchset is an attempt to move the rtl8192e wireless driver from > staging to the drivers directory proper. The original staging driver > was one driver in one directory. This patchset creates two new > subdirectories:
I guess you really want to CC [email protected] > * drivers/net/wireless/rtllib - common rtl819x driver code > * drivers/net/wireless/rtllib/rtl8192e - rtl8192e driver code > > There are now six drivers: > > * rtllib > * rtllib_crypt > * rtllib_crypt_ccmp/tkip/wep However looking at these, and select WIRELESS_EXT/ WEXT_PRIV strongly suggests that r8192e hasn't been ported to mac80211 yet, but still uses yet another 2.6.16-era ieee80211softmac fork, which would - to the best of my knowledge - make it unfit for mainline. > * r8192e [...] Likewise (patches against linux-next, next-20111115, following). --- /dev/null +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtllib/Makefile @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +ccflags-y += -DUSE_FW_SOURCE_IMG_FILE always true, there are no firmware arrays anymore, neither does anything in rtl8192e evaluate it anymore. +ccflags-y += -DCONFIG_PM_RTL (k)config option or not (my guess is no, given that it has been enabled unconditionally so far)? +ccflags-y += -DCONFIG_PM nothing in rtl8192e evaluates PM anymore. +ccflags-y += -DHAVE_NET_DEVICE_OPS always true in current kernels, just a few code paths to adapt +ccflags-y += -DENABLE_DOT11D nothing in rtl8192e evaluates ENABLE_DOT11D anymore, it's active unconditionally (as it should be). Disclaimer: Please don't consider this to be a thorough review, these issues just caught my eye from the cover letter and the first few lines of your patch. Regards Stefan Lippers-Hollmann _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
