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[2001:1c00:c32:7800:5bfa:a036:83f0:f9ec]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id l3-20020a1709067d4300b008e54ac90de1sm7448825ejp.74.2023.03.08.05.26.39 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 08 Mar 2023 05:26:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <92a9442a-cece-4179-fbdc-3c9188da073e@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2023 14:26:39 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.7.1 Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: delete driver Content-Language: en-US, nl To: Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-staging@lists.linux.dev Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, patches@lists.linux.dev, Martin Kaiser , Larry Finger , Phillip Potter , Pavel Skripkin References: <20230308131934.380395-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> From: Hans de Goede In-Reply-To: <20230308131934.380395-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi All, > Now that the same hardware that the r8188eu driver supported is > supported by the real wireless driver rtl8xxxu, the r8188eu driver can > be deleted. > > Also the rtl8xxxu driver supports way more devices, and is a fraction of > the overall size, making this a much better overall solution. > > Thanks to the r8188eu developers and maintainers and reviewers over the > years, your work allowed Linux users to use their hardware before the > real driver was implemented properly. > > Reported-by: Hans de Goede > Cc: Martin Kaiser > Cc: Larry Finger > Cc: Phillip Potter > Cc: Pavel Skripkin > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Thank you for doing this, I agree that this is the best solution moving forward: Acked-by: Hans de Goede Regards, Hans