staging: rtl8712: Remove driver using deprecated API wext

commit 41e883c137ebe6eec042658ef750cbb0529f6ca8 upstream.

This driver is in the staging area since 2010.

The following reasons lead to the removal:
- This driver generates maintenance workload for itself and for API wext
- A MAC80211 driver was available in 2016 time frame; This driver does
  not compile anymore but would be a better starting point than the
  current driver. Here the note from the TODO file:
  A replacement for this driver with MAC80211 support is available
  at https://github.com/chunkeey/rtl8192su
- no progress changing to mac80211
- Using this hardware is security wise not state of the art as WPA3 is
  not supported.

Find further discussions in the Link below.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-staging/a02e3e0b-8a9b-47d5-87cf-2c957a474daa@gmail.com/T/#t
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Dominik Karol Piątkowski <dominik.karol.piatkowski@protonmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241020144933.10956-1-philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[groeck: Resolved conflicts; dropped statement about hardware support in longterm kernels]
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20251204021604.GA843400@ax162/T/#t
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

103 files changed, 0 insertions, 27661 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/staging/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/Kconfig
index f9aef39cac2e..abaa7af6ee7d 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/staging/Kconfig
@@ -34,8 +34,6 @@ source "drivers/staging/rtl8192e/Kconfig"
 
 source "drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/Kconfig"
 
-source "drivers/staging/rtl8712/Kconfig"
-
 source "drivers/staging/rts5208/Kconfig"
 
 source "drivers/staging/octeon/Kconfig"
diff --git a/drivers/staging/Makefile b/drivers/staging/Makefile
index ffa70dda481d..b363618109ce 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/staging/Makefile
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_FB_OLPC_DCON)	+= olpc_dcon/
 obj-$(CONFIG_RTL8192U)		+= rtl8192u/
 obj-$(CONFIG_RTL8192E)		+= rtl8192e/
 obj-$(CONFIG_RTL8723BS)		+= rtl8723bs/
-obj-$(CONFIG_R8712U)		+= rtl8712/
 obj-$(CONFIG_RTS5208)		+= rts5208/
 obj-$(CONFIG_OCTEON_ETHERNET)	+= octeon/
 obj-$(CONFIG_VT6655)		+= vt6655/
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/Kconfig
deleted file mode 100644
index 8de26425225b..000000000000
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/Kconfig
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-config R8712U
-	tristate "RealTek RTL8712U (RTL8192SU) Wireless LAN NIC driver"
-	depends on WLAN && USB && CFG80211
-	select WIRELESS_EXT
-	select WEXT_PRIV
-	select FW_LOADER
-	help
-	    This option adds the Realtek RTL8712 USB device such as the
-	    D-Link DWA-130.
-
-	    If built as a module, it will be called r8712u.
-
-config R8712_TX_AGGR
-	bool "Realtek RTL8712U Transmit Aggregation code"
-	depends on R8712U && BROKEN
-	help
-	    This option provides transmit aggregation for the Realtek
-	    RTL8712 USB device.
-
-
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/Makefile b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index 3ae216b6621b..000000000000
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-r8712u-y :=				\
-		rtl871x_cmd.o		\
-		rtl8712_cmd.o		\
-		rtl871x_security.o	\
-		rtl871x_eeprom.o	\
-		rtl8712_efuse.o		\
-		hal_init.o		\
-		usb_halinit.o		\
-		usb_ops.o		\
-		usb_ops_linux.o		\
-		rtl871x_io.o		\
-		rtl8712_io.o		\
-		rtl871x_ioctl_linux.o	\
-		rtl871x_ioctl_rtl.o	\
-		rtl871x_ioctl_set.o	\
-		rtl8712_led.o		\
-		rtl871x_mlme.o		\
-		ieee80211.o		\
-		rtl871x_mp_ioctl.o	\
-		rtl871x_mp.o		\
-		mlme_linux.o		\
-		recv_linux.o		\
-		xmit_linux.o		\
-		usb_intf.o		\
-		os_intfs.o		\
-		rtl871x_pwrctrl.o	\
-		rtl8712_recv.o		\
-		rtl871x_recv.o		\
-		rtl871x_sta_mgt.o	\
-		rtl871x_xmit.o		\
-		rtl8712_xmit.o
-
-obj-$(CONFIG_R8712U)	:= r8712u.o
-
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/TODO b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/TODO
deleted file mode 100644
index 847c8c41f4f7..000000000000
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/TODO
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-TODO:
-- merge Realtek's bugfixes and new features into the driver
-- switch to use LIB80211
-- switch to use MAC80211
-- checkpatch.pl fixes - only a few remain
-
-A replacement for this driver with MAC80211 support is available
-at https://github.com/chunkeey/rtl8192su
-
-Please send any patches to Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
-Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
-Florian Schilhabel <florian.c.schilhabel@googlemail.com> and
-Linux Driver Project Developer List <driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org>.
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/basic_types.h b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/basic_types.h
deleted file mode 100644
index aecded87dd4c..000000000000
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/basic_types.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
-/******************************************************************************
- *
- * Copyright(c) 2007 - 2010 Realtek Corporation. All rights reserved.
- *
- * Modifications for inclusion into the Linux staging tree are
- * Copyright(c) 2010 Larry Finger. All rights reserved.
- *
- * Contact information:
- * WLAN FAE <wlanfae@realtek.com>
- * Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
- *
- ******************************************************************************/
-#ifndef __BASIC_TYPES_H__
-#define __BASIC_TYPES_H__
-
-#include <linux/types.h>
-
-#define sint signed int
-
-/* Should we extend this to be host_addr_t and target_addr_t for case:
- *	host : x86_64
- *	target : mips64
- */
-#define addr_t unsigned long
-
-#endif /*__BASIC_TYPES_H__*/
-
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/drv_types.h b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/drv_types.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 76ac798642bd..000000000000
--- a/