Difference between rtw8821ce and alt_rtl8821ce

lwfinger / rtw88

A backport of the Realtek Wifi 5 drivers from the wireless-next repo.

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Difference between rtw8821ce and alt_rtl8821ce #212

Open fahimscirex opened 2 months ago

fahimscirex commented 2 months ago

What's the use cases of these two drivers? How do I decide which one do I have to use?

dubhater commented 1 month ago

If you mean this one: https://github.com/tomaspinho/rtl8821ce alt_rtl8821ce is the same, but newer and unmaintained.

fahimscirex commented 1 month ago

I meant these two, didn't notice it's rtw not rtl - sorry for the confusion

https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw88/blob/master/rtw8821ce.c
https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw88/tree/master/alt_rtl8821ce

dubhater commented 1 month ago

alt_rtl8821ce is the traditional type of driver made by Realtek. You should use it only if you have to.

rtw8821ce.c is another driver made by Realtek, written from scratch in a way that is acceptable for inclusion in the Linux kernel. This is the one you should try first.