I've been working on the rtl8189fs patches for Mainline.

 

Althouth the source code change between Legacy and Mainline is pretty trivial, preparing good and nice patches becomes a tedious task :

 

- First, the original patch in Legacy contains tons of DOS file formatted (strange for a Linux driver, shame on Realtek) and even dos2unix failed on some files because of binaries character (probably Chinese), I had to edit many files because I wouldn't "signed-off" such ugly thing. (btw, maybe that dos2unix job should be done one Legacy to make it cleaner)

 

- It is a quick big patch, but about the same size as the one in Legacy, about 10MB of text file.

 

- Even after applying the patch, we still need to have some other patches, one for DefConfig in Igor's lib/config and one for DTS which I will work on tomorrow ...

 

- Then, lots of testing need to be done, especially that I need to figured out that everything is working in the fresh build environment, then a PR will be sent to Igor.

Tested with both OrangePi-Lite and OrangePi-Plus2E !

 

The PR is now sent...