RM rtl8812au dkms in lunar
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rtl8812au (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
[Impact]
rtl8812au should be now properly supported upstream in recent kernels (for example see the comment on this commit: https:/
rtl8812au is always likely to break with new kernels, delaying their release and there is no reason to keep maintaining this driver and potentially slowing down the release of new kernels in Ubuntu.
Moreover this driver is completely unmaintained upstream (basically it's a dead driver for obsolete hardware).
Therefore it makes sense to simply drop it from the archives.
[Test case]
Unfortunately we need specific hardware to prove the validity of this, so at the moment we are unable to properly test this change.
[Fix]
Remove rtl8812au-dkms from the archives, starting with Lunar.
[Regression potential]
People that are still relying on this driver in Lunar should still be able to use their hardware with the upstream driver, but we were not able to test it properly, therefore they may experience networking regressions.
| Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in rtl8812au (Ubuntu Lunar): | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| summary: |
- remove rtl8812au dkms in lunar + RM rtl8812au dkms in lunar |
| no longer affects: | rtl8812au (Ubuntu Lunar) |
| Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in rtl8812au (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Triaged → Fix Released |
Title must start with "RM" which is like an archive-admin action for removal.
Status must be set to triaged, otherwise it means the action is not ready to be actioned.
Subscribers should include ubuntu-archive subscriber, to land into their processing queue.