From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-ot1-f46.google.com (mail-ot1-f46.google.com [209.85.210.46]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7A34D72 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2021 19:18:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ot1-f46.google.com with SMTP id h24-20020a9d64180000b029036edcf8f9a6so3078669otl.3 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2021 12:18:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=sender:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=zI7SkFaWWbDBEZ1zEkQYT42jKObz7/x/yVA7oosczwA=; b=PsPsGJa3ehm9Dgn0eAs9JRl+SgFtERWuNG8WPSDzZWXyZvo1FVY7DmpmiveBOW+PjD 10nTwvEazJSAJB9d6UI9qYLwkM0/NcXt6AU21I1e9OAhVOfa2tDjTQNvcXeFZvgp3i2R Gesn28zAqB1r6wwNzIK7AIfATS7frAjnpEZJdrb1MfmqPxsM5RZbha6WzgKPFWDByjFq WengrKo8Td7/vnbKYVxX/pw7aGPdy7J8B+DEvVKAcsJaQ9Kh6qGD5btms8W9N9HmmfHt ONPYbWGX8/3BC0tU1rVFmDid83j1BlA3cxZhbSH7O4YqyirsiKvi1fesPlQkIdMBZCr/ cCBQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:sender:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id :date:user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=zI7SkFaWWbDBEZ1zEkQYT42jKObz7/x/yVA7oosczwA=; b=VdGdzGOPvxTme4dEsulamj76M21Z55Llv/LgLv+KojSKf+gVdYc4EBSlfQkLPyWX24 solCfq4SbmcuT5zQhi1QpPu4UcD9pkOfkuhrjRQL9lhjiRmtlPCPqRBJ4t1NvvZuC6bH tw7Rq1uOCRQ9G6ZOsvymk1wt7kruJ8BvVRUoFI3wusN4U9cgyIwuJ9YYnpXCLHiKTHRl qB2FuJVajnW9dXYvStiknuDOdbw+u99tTf8OgcxpY+zbt5HE4GD3RkrxAikZe2bnnCAQ ca/pYsjTYfOGQZE/29kerpoTngTFsHdfJq4zR1oGwXZnfPC7hgge1o68ljwOxEYFvu4r igBA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM530oDRk6p8/NG5H/oUJf5sg06PaOmIzi2eBdR516oj0dCozxLcMt ypiN/UivYKnDFabFA12e5cc= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJw5RIg9qxIl36oJODkJ8bmdEYrdw0fQyjMeH4c5RMlQpUr+T0v2RhGlHP0sFWJ9AobPf/S0Ug== X-Received: by 2002:a9d:5e0d:: with SMTP id d13mr27290043oti.274.1626895116637; Wed, 21 Jul 2021 12:18:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (cpe-24-31-246-181.kc.res.rr.com. [24.31.246.181]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id x3sm1849590otr.69.2021.07.21.12.18.34 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 21 Jul 2021 12:18:35 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Larry Finger Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] staging: rtl8188eu: move all source files from core subdirectory To: Dan Carpenter Cc: Phillip Potter , gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, fabioaiuto83@gmail.com References: <20210719224601.255364-1-phil@philpotter.co.uk> <7bc43fb0-2dab-190b-c480-9e77cff863d4@lwfinger.net> <20210720090035.GB1406@agape.jhs> <08a8b372-8ec2-afcc-cc54-305d1dd74a59@lwfinger.net> <0c2d97fa-e1e1-3564-98b8-37d5b9a1a9cb@lwfinger.net> <20210721182836.GX1931@kadam> From: Larry Finger Message-ID: Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 14:18:34 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.12.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20210721182836.GX1931@kadam> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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