From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, fabioaiuto83@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] staging: rtl8188eu: move all source files from core subdirectory
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 14:18:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ed7b7d93-f754-dce9-ca4f-425e49c972ba@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210721182836.GX1931@kadam>
On 7/21/21 1:28 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> You're obviously not a Realtek employee, but what are they doing for
> wireless drivers these days?
You are correct in that I am not a Realtek employee, nor do I have any knowledge
of the internals of any of their chips. I do have a close working arrangement
with the head of their PCI driver development, and I have gotten free samples of
some of their chips. I am a volunteer that is interested in providing drivers
for the devices in new laptops with wireless chips that do not yet have a Linux
driver in the kernel. I also provide relatively modern drivers for older USB
devices through GitHub repos.
From what I know, the PCI group at Realtek is mainly working on new 802.11ac
devices, but are leaving some hooks for the USB and SDIO equivalents of those
chips (RTL8822BE, RTL8822CE, RTL8821CE, RTL8723DE, and RTL8852AE). These drivers
are either in the drivers/net/wireless tree of the kernel, or are under review
for such inclusion.
I have no current contact with the USB part of their driver development.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-21 19:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-19 22:46 [PATCH resend] staging: rtl8188eu: move all source files from core subdirectory Phillip Potter
2021-07-19 23:46 ` Larry Finger
2021-07-20 9:00 ` Fabio Aiuto
2021-07-20 22:54 ` Phillip Potter
2021-07-21 7:51 ` Fabio Aiuto
2021-07-21 0:22 ` Larry Finger
2021-07-21 7:47 ` Fabio Aiuto
2021-07-21 7:49 ` Phillip Potter
2021-07-21 17:33 ` Larry Finger
2021-07-21 18:28 ` Dan Carpenter
2021-07-21 19:18 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2021-07-22 10:44 ` Phillip Potter
2021-07-22 13:28 ` Greg KH
2021-07-22 16:30 ` Larry Finger
2021-07-22 22:12 ` Phillip Potter
2021-07-20 22:51 ` Phillip Potter
2021-07-21 8:16 ` Greg KH
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