rtlwifi: rtl8192su subdriver
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Quoted 12 lines · Xose Vazquez Perez
Quoted 9 lines · on Mon, 7 May 2012 Joshua Roys wrote:
Currently a WIP.
A few things have changed between this and the previous version. Larry Finger's \
patch for handling the race condition with mac80211 and the firmware callback is used \
instead (rtlwifi: fix for race condition when firmware is cached), and a new patch \
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hi Joshua,
any news on that ?
Hello,
Currently I'm still searching for the hidden/undocumented registers that will allow the rtlwifi driver to drive the *su chips. (The rtlwifi driver uses the softmac infrastructure while the current firmware for the *su chips really needs a fullmac driver.)
Josh
Quoted 15 lines · Joshua Roys
Quoted 14 lines · Xose Vazquez Perez
Quoted 9 lines · on Mon, 7 May 2012 Joshua Roys wrote:
Currently a WIP.
A few things have changed between this and the previous version. Larry Finger's \
patch for handling the race condition with mac80211 and the firmware callback is used \
instead (rtlwifi: fix for race condition when firmware is cached), and a new patch \
[...]hi Joshua,
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any news on that ?
Hello,
Currently I'm still searching for the hidden/undocumented registers that will allow the rtlwifi driver to drive the *su chips. (The rtlwifi driver uses the softmac infrastructure while the current firmware for the *su chips really needs a fullmac driver.)
I don't think I believe the business about a fullmac driver. Driver r8712u, which does handle the RTL8191SU, uses its own softmac driver.
Larry
Quoted 4 lines · Joshua Roys
Currently I'm still searching for the hidden/undocumented registers that will allow the rtlwifi driver to drive the *su chips. (The rtlwifi driver uses the softmac infrastructure while the current firmware for the *su chips really needs a fullmac driver.)
Is there any reason to think a fullmac driver is better than a softmac for this chip ?
Quoted 5 lines · Xose Vazquez Perez
Quoted 3 lines · Joshua Roys
Currently I'm still searching for the hidden/undocumented registers that will
allow the rtlwifi driver to drive the *su chips. (The rtlwifi driver
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uses the
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softmac infrastructure while the current firmware for the *su chips
really
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needs a fullmac driver.)
Is there any reason to think a fullmac driver is better than a softmac for this chip ?
The firmware provides a very similar set of services as called by drivers/net/wireless/rndis_wlan.c (albeit through a different calling interface). This would offload some processing to the device and potentially allow the host to sleep more. The big reason not to is that we have rtlwifi/softmac already...
Josh