Re: [PATCH v2] Add rtl8187 wireless driver

Michael Wu wrote:

This patch adds a mac80211 based wireless driver for the rtl8187 USB
wireless card.

Signed-off-by: Michael Wu <flamingice-R9e9/4HEdknk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>
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 MAINTAINERS                                    |   10 
 drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig                   |    2 
 drivers/net/wireless/Makefile                  |    3 
 drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/Kconfig           |   16 +
 drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/Makefile          |    2 
 drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187.h         |  125 ++++
 drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_dev.c     |  730 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_rtl8225.c |  744 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_rtl8225.h |   30 +
 drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl818x.h         |  212 +++++++
 10 files changed, 1874 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Much better.

For the record, new wireless drivers go TO John Linville for merging 
(and he pushes to me, in turn).

I am a bit skeptical that multiple files are needed.  It seems like 
drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x.c would be a better path, a la tg3.c.

	Jeff