Re: staging/rtl8187se should be removed

2014-04-10 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 06:21:36PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > The thing about keeping e100 in parallel with the other driver is that > some devices didn't work on the other driver and also it wasn't staging > code. > > I don't have strong opinions either way, but if we decide to keep the > old

Re: staging/rtl8187se should be removed

2014-04-10 Thread Dan Carpenter
The thing about keeping e100 in parallel with the other driver is that some devices didn't work on the other driver and also it wasn't staging code. I don't have strong opinions either way, but if we decide to keep the old driver around for another kernel release "just in case" then we should make

Re: staging/rtl8187se should be removed

2014-04-09 Thread Andrea Merello
I honestly can't estimate how many rtl8187se users will be gained by this driver once it will appears in mainline (considering that most users will probably run kernels from distributions, that updates fairly slower than vanilla) and how much new use-cases this driver will suddenly encounter... Ass

Re: staging/rtl8187se should be removed

2014-04-09 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 10:10:49AM +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > hi, > > Support for RTL8187SE devices(0x8199) was added to > rtl8180 recently. See 1eba648f998ef9c31b8cf062754a4a7b4ab9001f Very nice, so, any objection to me deleting the staging driver now? thanks, greg k-h