From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:56517 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751379Ab0HTDeh (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:34:37 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:31:12 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Larry Finger Cc: Jerry-RealtekFAE , Gauss Frank , Linus Torvalds , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , wlanfae , Florian Schilhabel Subject: Re: Hi,Linus Torvalds. There's a problem in r8192u driver in Linux new kernel. Message-ID: <20100820033112.GA5821@suse.de> References: <20100812161907.GA25082@suse.de> <76C6BFFEAAA24679B55CBB186C084833@cnfaec24b87a3f> <20100820001531.GA2312@suse.de> <4C6DEF52.6050407@lwfinger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <4C6DEF52.6050407@lwfinger.net> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 09:58:26PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > On 08/19/2010 07:15 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 05:37:09PM +0800, Jerry-RealtekFAE wrote: > >> Dear Sir/Madam > >> > >> Please find the RTL8192U latest Linux driver in the attachment. > >> Please try it on Kernel 2.6.35-1 again. > > > > Could you send patches updating the in-kernel version of this driver to > > your latest version? That would help everyone out in the end. > > I have a copy of the driver that Realtek calls the r8712 for the RTL8192 USB > devices. All of the dead code and the unneeded configuration sections have been > removed. It will be submitted to staging as soon as Realtek signs off on the > copyright info. For some reason, it has taken them several weeks and I still > have no answer. This new driver is stable - the connection stays up for days. I > expect that it will replace the current one in staging. Wonderful, that's great news. Jerry, any word on getting the copyright sign off moved along? thanks, greg k-h