Re: [PATCH] staging: Add rtl8723bs sdio wifi driver

[poma <pomidorabelisima@gmail.com>]

On 30.03.2017 16:06, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> On 03/30/2017 03:15 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 08:20:19PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
>>> On 03/29/2017 12:47 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>> The rtl8723bs is found on quite a few systems used by Linux users,
>>>> such as on Atom systems (Intel Computestick and various other
>>>> Atom based devices) and on many (budget) ARM boards such as
>>>> the CHIP.
>>>>
>>>> The plan moving forward with this is for the new clean,
>>>> written from scratch, rtl8xxxu driver to eventually gain
>>>> support for sdio devices. But there is no clear timeline
>>>> for that, so lets add this driver included in staging for now.
>>>>
>>>> Cc: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
>>>> Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
>>>> Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes.sorensen@gmail.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
>>>
>>> Hans,
>>>
>>> I am still building the driver on my CherryTrail tablet, but I did see some
>>> warnings and errors listed by Smatch as follows:
>>>
> [snip]
>>> The indent problems can probably be ignored, but many of the others are
>>> serious enough to be addressed now.
>>>
>>> Once this driver is merged into staging, the Outreachy folks will be really busy.
>>>
>>> Thanks for posting this driver,
>>
>> So, no objection from you?  Great, I'll go queue it up later today...
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> greg k-h
>>
> 
> As much as I hate adding more Realtek vendor code to the kernel, I do 
> agree this is the right thing to do in the interim. Not sure when I'll 
> get to SDIO support in rtl8xxxu, but I will process patches, hint hint :)
> 
> Jes
> 

A day after tomorrow? :)