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Philipp Hortmann 85cc2f9902 staging: rtl8712: Remove driver using deprecated API wext 
commit 41e883c137 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>
History 2025-12-07 06:09:36 +09:00
arch MIPS: mm: Prevent a TLB shutdown on initial uniquification 2025-12-07 06:09:34 +09:00
block Revert "block: don't add or resize partition on the disk with GENHD_FL_NO_PART" 2025-12-07 06:09:33 +09:00
certs certs/blacklist_hashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2022-06-22 14:22:01 +02:00
crypto crypto: essiv - Check ssize for decryption and in-place encryption 2025-10-19 16:21:43 +02:00
Documentation dt-bindings: pinctrl: toshiba,visconti: Fix number of items in groups 2025-12-07 06:09:33 +09:00
drivers staging: rtl8712: Remove driver using deprecated API wext 2025-12-07 06:09:36 +09:00
fs btrfs: fix crash on racing fsync and size-extending write into prealloc 2025-12-07 06:09:32 +09:00
include ata: libata-scsi: Fix system suspend for a security locked drive 2025-12-07 06:09:33 +09:00
init init: handle bootloader identifier in kernel parameters 2025-10-19 16:21:45 +02:00
io_uring io_uring: fix possible deadlock in io_register_iowq_max_workers() 2024-11-17 15:06:25 +01:00
ipc ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU 2025-06-27 11:05:26 +01:00
kernel gcov: add support for GCC 15 2025-12-07 06:09:29 +09:00
lib lib/crypto: curve25519-hacl64: Fix older clang KASAN workaround for GCC 2025-12-07 06:09:26 +09:00
LICENSES LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Git rid of "smart quotes" 2021-07-15 06:31:24 -06:00
mm mm/secretmem: fix use-after-free race in fault handler 2025-12-07 06:09:32 +09:00
net libceph: prevent potential out-of-bounds writes in handle_auth_session_key() 2025-12-07 06:09:36 +09:00
samples samples: mei: Fix building on musl libc 2025-08-28 16:24:07 +02:00
scripts Makefile.compiler: replace cc-ifversion with compiler-specific macros 2025-12-07 06:09:32 +09:00
security KEYS: trusted_tpm1: Compare HMAC values in constant time 2025-10-19 16:21:45 +02:00
sound ALSA: usb-audio: fix uac2 clock source at terminal parser 2025-12-07 06:09:32 +09:00
tools selftests: mptcp: connect: fix fallback note due to OoO 2025-12-07 06:09:32 +09:00
usr kbuild: hdrcheck: fix cross build with clang 2025-06-27 11:05:22 +01:00
virt KVM: Fix a data race on last_boosted_vcpu in kvm_vcpu_on_spin() 2024-10-22 15:40:41 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2021-05-12 23:32:39 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore Remove *.orig pattern from .gitignore 2024-10-17 15:11:10 +02:00
.mailmap mailmap: add Andrej Shadura 2021-10-18 20:22:03 -10:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Move Daniel Drake to credits 2021-09-21 08:34:58 +03:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS staging: rtl8712: Remove driver using deprecated API wext 2025-12-07 06:09:36 +09:00
Makefile Makefile.compiler: replace cc-ifversion with compiler-specific macros 2025-12-07 06:09:32 +09:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.