Re: feedback on mainlining wilc1000 staging driver

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Ajay Singh <ajay.kathat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi Greg,
>
> We all are working on submitting and reviewing patches for wilc1000 in
> staging driver for quite some time. 
>
> We would like to have feedback on the next steps to bring wilc1000
> driver closer to move into the wireless subsystem tree. 
>
> In summary, the following major things from TODO have been addressed in
> staging:
> -remove the defined feature as kernel versions
> -remove OS wrapper functions
> -remove custom debug and tracing functions
> -rework comments and function headers(also coding style)
> -remove build warnings
> -replace all semaphores with mutexes or completions
> -make spi and sdio components coexist in one build
> -turn compile-time platform configuration (BEAGLE_BOARD, PANDA_BOARD,
> PLAT_WMS8304, PLAT_RKXXXX, CUSTOMER_PLATFORM, ...) into run-time
> options that are read from DT
> -replace SIOCDEVPRIVATE commands with generic API functions
> -use wext-core handling instead of private SIOCSIWPRIV implementation

>From wireless point of view: if I see wext mentioned anywhere in the
driver I stop right there. cfg80211 is a hard requirement for us
nowadays.

-- 
Kalle Valo
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