Linux 7.2 Staging Still Working To Tame The Realtek RTL8723BS "Beast Of A Driver"

Posted by bob on Jun 25, 2026 9:07 AM EDT
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Way back in 2017 for the Linux 4.12 kernel the Realtek rtl8723bs WiFi driver was added to the kernel's staging area. Nearly a decade later, it's still being cleaned-up to suit the more rigorous non-staging area of the kernel in the formal networking subsystem. For Linux 7.2, the staging pull request is once again dominated by clean-ups to this Realtek WiFi driver...

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