Re: [BUG] staging: r8188eu: driver stopped working with commit ("staging: r8188eu: add check for kzalloc")

[Martin Kaiser]

Hi Michael & Phil,

Thus wrote Michael Straube (straube.linux@xxxxxxxxx):

> The driver does not work anymore on my system. In dmesg there is:

> "r8188eu 1-4:1.0: _rtw_init_xmit_priv failed"

> I bisected it to commit f94b47c6bde ("staging: r8188eu: add check for
> kzalloc").

> ~/kernels/staging> git bisect bad
> f94b47c6bde624d6c07f43054087607c52054a95 is the first bad commit

> At the moment I have no time to look further into it.

See also

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-staging/YoyU4zXf45UpF1Tq@xxxxxxxxx/T/#mb5e56a285b8eb1ebb0e798462fc388cb02b4a7cc

Phil said in

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-staging/YoyU4zXf45UpF1Tq@xxxxxxxxx/T/#m7a21d460b2569f6b59965ecc3298a6337fa3458a

that he has submitted a patch to fix this issue for now until we
get around to changing the _SUCCESS and _FAIL values.

Phil, did you really send this out? I don't see it.
If you don't have anything ready, I can try a simple fix.

Thanks & best regards,

   Martin