On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 9:28 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > > On 18-01-17 13:10, Josh Boyer wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 5:18 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> >>> And I still end up at my original unanswered question: >>> >>> "All I'm asking from the fedora kernel team is permission >>> to add the driver." >> >> >> I believe you also offered to maintain it, yes? > > > Yes, if I get to go ahead to add these I will take care of them > 100%, which is also why I want to start with just rtl8723bs and > see how that goes. > > As said the Fedora kernel team can just comment out the patches > when things break when rebasing to a new rc1, and I will take > care of getting things fixed. Note if things break in a minor > release e.g. going from 4.8.15 to 4.8.16 a heads-up of course > would be appreciated, but I assume that is common sense. We did this with another out-of-tree patchset a while ago to support ACPI and UEFI on Aarch64 before that was upstream. The maintainer of that patchset did a great job and I think it worked well enough. As I said earlier, I don't have a say in the decision but if similar efforts are in place for these drivers then it could be successful. josh _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
