Commit fdf6c230 authored Mar 08, 2023 by Greg Kroah-Hartman

staging: r8188eu: delete driver



Now that the same hardware that the r8188eu driver supported is
supported by the real wireless driver rtl8xxxu, the r8188eu driver can
be deleted.

Also the rtl8xxxu driver supports way more devices, and is a fraction of
the overall size, making this a much better overall solution.

Thanks to the r8188eu developers and maintainers and reviewers over the
years, your work allowed Linux users to use their hardware before the
real driver was implemented properly.

Reported-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>
Cc: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <LarryFinger@lwfinger.net>
Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>
Tested-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com> # Edimax N150
Acked-by: Michael Straube <straube.linux@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230308131934.380395-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org


Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

parent d17789ed

MAINTAINERS

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		@@ -19863,13 +19863,6 @@ S: Maintained
		W: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/DCON
		F: drivers/staging/olpc_dcon/

		STAGING - REALTEK RTL8188EU DRIVERS
		M: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
		M: Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>
		R: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>
		S: Supported
		F: drivers/staging/r8188eu/

		STAGING - REALTEK RTL8712U DRIVERS
		M: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
		M: Florian Schilhabel <florian.c.schilhabel@googlemail.com>.

drivers/staging/Kconfig

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		@@ -36,8 +36,6 @@ source "drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/Kconfig"

		source "drivers/staging/rtl8712/Kconfig"

		source "drivers/staging/r8188eu/Kconfig"

		source "drivers/staging/rts5208/Kconfig"

		source "drivers/staging/octeon/Kconfig"

drivers/staging/Makefile

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		@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_RTL8192U) += rtl8192u/
		obj-$(CONFIG_RTL8192E) += rtl8192e/
		obj-$(CONFIG_RTL8723BS) += rtl8723bs/
		obj-$(CONFIG_R8712U) += rtl8712/
		obj-$(CONFIG_R8188EU) += r8188eu/
		obj-$(CONFIG_RTS5208) += rts5208/
		obj-$(CONFIG_OCTEON_ETHERNET) += octeon/
		obj-$(CONFIG_VT6655) += vt6655/

drivers/staging/r8188eu/Kconfig

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		# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
		config R8188EU
		tristate "Realtek RTL8188EU Wireless LAN NIC driver"
		depends on WLAN && USB && CFG80211
		depends on m
		select WIRELESS_EXT
		select WEXT_PRIV
		select LIB80211
		select LIB80211_CRYPT_WEP
		select LIB80211_CRYPT_CCMP
		help
		This option adds support for the Realtek RTL8188EU chipset, used in USB
		devices such as the ASUS USB-N10 Nano. This newer driver is based on GitHub
		sources for version v4.1.4_6773.20130222, and contains modifications for
		newer kernel features. If built as a module, it will be called r8188eu.

drivers/staging/r8188eu/Makefile

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		r8188eu-y = \
		hal/HalHWImg8188E_MAC.o \
		hal/HalHWImg8188E_BB.o \
		hal/HalHWImg8188E_RF.o \
		hal/HalPhyRf_8188e.o \
		hal/HalPwrSeqCmd.o \
		hal/Hal8188ERateAdaptive.o \
		hal/hal_intf.o \
		hal/hal_com.o \
		hal/odm.o \
		hal/odm_HWConfig.o \
		hal/odm_RTL8188E.o \
		hal/rtl8188e_cmd.o \
		hal/rtl8188e_dm.o \
		hal/rtl8188e_hal_init.o \
		hal/rtl8188e_phycfg.o \
		hal/rtl8188e_rf6052.o \
		hal/rtl8188e_rxdesc.o \
		hal/rtl8188eu_xmit.o \
		hal/usb_halinit.o \
		hal/usb_ops_linux.o \
		os_dep/ioctl_linux.o \
		os_dep/os_intfs.o \
		os_dep/osdep_service.o \
		os_dep/usb_intf.o \
		os_dep/usb_ops_linux.o \
		core/rtw_ap.o \
		core/rtw_br_ext.o \
		core/rtw_cmd.o \
		core/rtw_efuse.o \
		core/rtw_fw.o \
		core/rtw_ieee80211.o \
		core/rtw_ioctl_set.o \
		core/rtw_iol.o \
		core/rtw_led.o \
		core/rtw_mlme.o \
		core/rtw_mlme_ext.o \
		core/rtw_pwrctrl.o \
		core/rtw_p2p.o \
		core/rtw_recv.o \
		core/rtw_rf.o \
		core/rtw_security.o \
		core/rtw_sta_mgt.o \
		core/rtw_wlan_util.o \
		core/rtw_xmit.o

		obj-$(CONFIG_R8188EU) := r8188eu.o