Kalle Valo <[email protected]> writes: > Jes Sorensen <[email protected]> writes: > >> Kalle Valo <[email protected]> writes: >>> [email protected] writes: >>> >>>> Per default only devices I have actually tested will be enabled. If >>>> you are interested in trying it out with other 8188cu/8188ru/819[12]cu >>>> dongles, you need to enable CONFIG_RTL8XXXU_UNTESTED. Please report >>>> test results back to me. >>>> >>>> Note if you enable this driver, it may clash with CONFIG_RTL8192U, >>>> CONFIG_R8723AU, and CONFIG_RTL8192CU (rtlwifi). Please pay attention >>>> to which module you load and/or use modprobe blacklists. >>> >>> May clash? So how does this work in practise? Is the clash referring >>> CONFIG_RTL8XXXU_UNTESTED enabled or disabled? >>> >>> I think we should only have one driver automatically supporting certain >>> hardware, and not have a driver randomly chosen and forcing users to use >>> a blacklist. >> >> We already have the clash, if you enable CONFIG_RTL8192U in staging it >> clashes with rtlwifi's CONFIG_RTL8192CU. Ripping out the above two >> drivers at this point isn't going to do users any good. > > I'm not saying about we should remove drivers, my worry is only that we > don't have two drivers competing about same devices in a normal distro > kernel. We should _by default_ not have two drivers claiming support for > the same device, developer's can of course enable this via experimental > options etc. > >>> Also how do we make sure that distros don't enable >>> CONFIG_RTL8XXXU_UNTESTED? They are notarious of enabling kconfig options >>> without thinking. >> >> Some distros enable staging whether you ask them or not. > > Sure, that's up to them. I don't care what's in staging so I can't > really comment about that, this is only in context of > drivers/net/wireless/.
I'm with you, my point is just that we already have multiple drivers claming this. It is not a new situation :( Right now the distros enable the rtl drivers in staging because it is the only way to get support for a number of realtek devices. At least OpenSuSE and Debian seem to be enabling CONFIG_RTL8192U right now, while Fedora doesn't. Cheers, Jes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
