Hi
On Thursday 04 November 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 19:21 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:59:41 +0800, Keng-Yu Lin wrote:
[...]
> > > * Package name : rtl8192ce-dkms
> > > Version : 2.6.0003.0628.2010+dfsg
> > > Upstream Author : Realtek Semiconductor Corporation
> > > * URL : http://www.realtek.com
> > > * License : GPLv2
> > > Programming Lang: C
> > > Description : Realtek RTL8192CE driver in DKMS format.
> > >
> > > This package contains Realtek 802.11 Linux wireless driver
> > > for use with Realtek RTL8192CE-based hardware.
> >
> > Why is that driver not in the standard kernel package?
>
> Because it's not upstream. So the next question is, why is it not
> upstream (in staging)?
This appears to be scheduled for 2.6.38:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg58284.html
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as follow up to
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg58273.html
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at least the required firmware for RTL8192CE and RTL8712U (replacing
RTL8192SU/ r8192s_usb in 2.6.37) has been merged into linux-firmware.git
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1011.0/00610.html
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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=tree;f=rtlwifi
Assuming RTL8192CE support gets merged for 2.6.38, introducing a new
package providing dkms support it during a freeze might not be very
effective. Once it gets actually merged, a backport to (then current)
2.6.37 should be relatively trivial.
Regards
Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
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