Re: staging: No option to select rtl8192su in linux-2.6.33-rc2

[Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
>> If you have no other wireless drivers selected then RealTek RTL8192SU
>> does not show up in menuconfig for staging.
>>
>> rtl8192su needs the "select WIRELESS_EXT" fix for "wext: refactor"?
>>
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3d23e349d807177eaf519d444677cee86b1a04cf
>>
>> as done for some in:
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=125b181aec7a67c71234284ecf6d9c729d05deda
>>
>>
>> Also:
>> rtl8192u, wlan-ng, wlags49_h2(?)
>
> if staging drivers break, then please create a patch and mail it do
> Greg. Don't bother linux-wireless with it since nobody here actually
> cares about the staging drivers.

"nobody cares" is not entirely true - AFAIK, code in the staging area
is unreliable/unsuitable/"poor" code which serves the sole purpose of
being there for scavenging and references for re-write (because there
is no equivalent functionality, even alleged, in mainline); so people
looking at the staging code for ideas or references is welcomed. It is
just that there is no hints of any support or vague guarantee that any
of it works for any fitness of purpose. i.e. patches which fix
problems, or migrate functionality out of the staging area to
main-line, are welcomed, but questions and request for help on
understanding or making any of it work, are not.

>
> Regards
>
> Marcel
>
>
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