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Why not shipping this driver into the kernel ? #6

Open alexarnaud opened 5 years ago

alexarnaud commented 5 years ago

Hello @Ri0n and all,

I don't know where to start a discussion about that.

To simplify both life of beginners users and maintenance of computer, why not shipping this driver into the kernel ?

I'm spent lot of time dealing with card reader issue of "RTL8411B", I've not tested your driver because I'm helping a blind Linux user to deal with this issue (I don't have this card reader on my own computer).

Thanks in advance and for your work in FOSS community.

Best regards, Alex.

Ri0n commented 5 years ago

Hi Alex, The driver is not compatible with recent kernels as far as I remember. I was going to update it but instead bought another card reader. So it's now hard to return to something you don't need anymore :)

alexarnaud commented 5 years ago

@Ri0n Thanks for your quick feedback.

I've the same computer that the blind person I help has with the same card reader RTL8411B but with another SD card (I'm far away of my user)

Because you've deal with this, because I'm not myself able to read your code source and don't want to spent the time you've spent, do you know what is the different? Do I have a card that magically works and not its own one? Does it is a matter of formatting ? Why sometime card works, sometimes not ?

What I've seen is that the first partition /dev/mmcblk0p1 is not detected, only /dev/mmcblk0 is detected. (I'm a beginner on hardware area)

Best regards, Alex.

Ri0n commented 5 years ago

regarding sometimes works sometimes not, I had the same problem. Honestly I thought it's something not software since dmesg had nothing on connection. I just tried again and eventually it started working. But now I'm not that sure. I never tried to make more than one partition. So I can't say anything here.

and it's not my code. I just put here and applied all patches I had.