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Re: [PATCH v5] Add new mac80211 driver mwlwifi.

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On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 3:47 AM, David Lin <dlin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>Jonas Gorski wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 8:10 AM, David Lin <dlin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

(snip)

>> > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwlwifi/Kconfig
>> > b/drivers/net/wireless/mwlwifi/Kconfig
>> > new file mode 100644
>> > index 0000000..3732223
>> > --- /dev/null
>> > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwlwifi/Kconfig
>> > @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
>> > +config MWLWIFI
>> > +       tristate "Marvell Wireless Wi-Fi driver (mwlwifi)"
>>
>> Do you also have wired Wi-Fi cards? ;P
>>
>> The description seems very generic despite only supporting two chips.
>> Currently we already have two other marvell drivers claiming to support
>> "marvell" wireless:
>>
>> config MWL8K
>>         tristate "Marvell 88W8xxx PCI/PCIe Wireless support"
>>
>> config MWIFIEX
>>         tristate "Marvell WiFi-Ex Driver"
>>
>> I think it would be good to have some more precise description here
>> (something like "Marvell 88W8864/8897 PCIe driver with AP support").
>>
>
> Will change the title from "Marvell Wireless Wi-Fi driver (mwlwifi)" to "Marvell 88W8864/88W8897 PCIe driver with AP support".

As Imre pointed out, mwifiex also supports AP mode, so this is not a
good description.


Jonas
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