rtl8192se in staging, firmware in woodhouse tree?

Chase Douglas chase.douglas at canonical.com
Thu May 6 20:59:14 UTC 2010


On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:55 PM,  <manoj.iyer at canonical.com> wrote:
> Roger,
>
> Any plans on getting this into gkh staging tree? Last time I had a brief
> chat with gkh he mentioned that the only criteria required to get stuff
> into his staging was that it compiled cleanly. Looks like there are a few
> popular laptops (asus, lenovo) shipping with this wifi. Ubuntu is carrying
> this driver under ubuntu/ directory in our kernel, ubuntu/ where we put
> all the drivers that are not upstream and not in staging yet, but is
> openly available. Also, the firmware needs to go into woodhouse tree.

The firmware is already in Woodhouse's tree. Gkh grabbed it from
realtek's web site, and I cherry picked his commit to our
linux-firmware tree. You can find the commit at:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=commit;h=a9799c6dbb173b98215fad9abb3eb6f4d47a188c

Thanks,

-- Chase




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