[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 1/1] package/rtl8821au: add patch fixing sprintf error

[Peter Seiderer]

Hello Thomas,

On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 23:42:09 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 14:31:26 -0700
> Christian Stewart <christian at paral.in> wrote:
>
> > > Applied to master, thanks. I have to say the snippet of code that is
> > > being patched here does not give a very good feel of the rtl8821au
> > > code base :-/
> >
> > After years of struggling with USB rtl cards (and helping others do
> > the same) I have to agree.
>
> And nobody ever thought of taking all these crappy out of tree WiFi
> drivers, submit them for drivers/staging/ inclusion in the upstream
> kernel, and progressively clean them up ?

For some there are already staging alternatives (see [1], [2], [3], [4], [5])...

Regards,
Peter


[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/staging/rtl8192e
[3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/staging/rtl8192u
[4] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/staging/rtl8712
[5] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs

>
> Thomas