On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 11:20:11AM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 3/8/19 8:06 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 09:55:43PM +0800, [email protected] wrote:
> > > From: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <[email protected]>
> > > 
> > > The rtlwifi driver is conflicting with Realtek's new 802.11ac chip
> > > series driver rtw88, remove it to avoid racing with the same ID.
> > > 
> > > The rtw88 driver can be found at drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88
> > 
> > The only objection I have here is that your new driver does not support
> > all of the devices that this driver does.  So why not just rip out the
> > PCI stuff for the staging driver until the USB/SDIO code gets added to
> > the new one, and then you can drop the rest of this code?
> 
> Greg,
> 
> The staging driver only supports PCI ID 0x10ec:0xB822, whereas the new one
> supports that ID plus 0x10ec:0xC822. There will not be any devices dropped
> when the staging code is deleted as long as the new driver is added.

Ah, ok, all of those "*usb*" files in that driver directory lied :)

If there's no regression of devices, then I have no objection to this:

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

thanks,

greg k-h

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