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staging: refresh TODO for rtl8712
authorXose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>
Mon, 14 Mar 2016 14:50:07 +0000 (15:50 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 23 Mar 2016 02:22:13 +0000 (22:22 -0400)
People should not waste time and energy working on this staging driver.
At least four drivers were written for this hardware:
 https://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=138358275410975
And there is a replacement using the kernel wireless stack at:
 https://github.com/chunkeey/rtl8192su
Also a fullmac/cfg80211 driver(r92su) is available.

Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Florian Schilhabel <florian.c.schilhabel@googlemail.com>
Cc: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Cc: Joshua Roys <Joshua.Roys@gtri.gatech.edu>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Linux Driver Project Developer List <driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org>
Cc: Linux Wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/rtl8712/TODO

index d8dfe5bfe7020b06e3de7b742e3fe17e04b03e59..847c8c41f4f7ff0bd9976df8f77f5d151d2d6759 100644 (file)
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ TODO:
 - switch to use MAC80211
 - checkpatch.pl fixes - only a few remain
 
-Please send any patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>,
-Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> and
-Florian Schilhabel <florian.c.schilhabel@googlemail.com>.
-
-
-
+A replacement for this driver with MAC80211 support is available
+at https://github.com/chunkeey/rtl8192su
 
+Please send any patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
+Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
+Florian Schilhabel <florian.c.schilhabel@googlemail.com> and
+Linux Driver Project Developer List <driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org>.