Philipp Hortmann f12f4c6576 staging: rtl8712: Remove driver using deprecated API wext
commit 41e883c137ebe6eec042658ef750cbb0529f6ca8 upstream.

This driver is in the staging area since 2010.

The following reasons lead to the removal:
- This driver generates maintenance workload for itself and for API wext
- A MAC80211 driver was available in 2016 time frame; This driver does
  not compile anymore but would be a better starting point than the
  current driver. Here the note from the TODO file:
  A replacement for this driver with MAC80211 support is available
  at https://github.com/chunkeey/rtl8192su
- no progress changing to mac80211
- Using this hardware is security wise not state of the art as WPA3 is
  not supported.

Find further discussions in the Link below.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-staging/a02e3e0b-8a9b-47d5-87cf-2c957a474daa@gmail.com/T/#t
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Dominik Karol Piątkowski <dominik.karol.piatkowski@protonmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241020144933.10956-1-philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[groeck: Resolved conflicts; dropped statement about hardware support in longterm kernels]
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20251204021604.GA843400@ax162/T/#t
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2025-12-07 06:18:54 +09:00
2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
2025-12-01 11:41:54 +01:00

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