From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-staging@lists.linux.dev
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, patches@lists.linux.dev,
Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>,
Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>,
Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: delete driver
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2023 12:22:47 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c5721099-ef49-feaa-1624-813ba2034cd2@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230308131934.380395-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
On 3/8/23 07:19, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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<hdegoede@redhat.com>
> Cc: Martin Kaiser<martin@kaiser.cx>
> Cc: Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
> Cc: Phillip Potter<phil@philpotter.co.uk>
> Cc: Pavel Skripkin<paskripkin@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <LarryFinger@lwfinger.net>
This staging driver satisfied a need at the time it was first added to the
kernel, but that time is over!
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-08 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-08 13:19 [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: delete driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-03-08 13:26 ` Hans de Goede
2023-03-08 13:44 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-03-08 14:17 ` Martin Kaiser
2023-03-08 18:22 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2023-03-08 20:33 ` Philipp Hortmann
2023-03-08 22:36 ` Michael Straube
2023-03-10 19:08 ` Pavel Skripkin
2023-03-11 10:33 ` Phillip Potter
2023-03-11 12:19 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-03-14 8:06 ` Richard Weinberger
2023-03-20 19:31 ` Bitterblue Smith
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