On Tue, 07 Jul 2015 15:48:38 +0200, Chor Teck Law <ctlaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>> 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.
We have explained a few times on this... Pls read about the difference
of mwifiex vs mwlwifi. There is a NOTE added to the description of
KConfig of mwlwifi.
Would the community prefer this description instead: "Marvell
88W8864/88W8897 driver with MAC80211 support"?
I have a different suggestion, please read below.
On the short run, changing the description of the drivers could work,
but I would suggest dropping (at least) 8897 support from mwifiex in
favor of mwlwifi. If supporting the 8766 isn't complicated, I would
drop PCIe support completely from there.
David, Chor Teck, could you shed some light on the future driver
strategy?
The mwlwifi as it is today, only supports said PCIe devices. There is no
near term plan for any other devices. But we cannot speak for future.
Let's comment based on the current state.
Sure thing, what I was talking about is more like making the driver
selection less confusing for the enduser.
What I would propose is something along the lines (I have to cheat a bit,
I know):
mwlwifi: "Marvell Avastar (802.11ac) PCIe support"
mwifiex: "Marvell Avastar (802.11n) support"
mwl8k : "Marvell TopDog (802.11n) support"
Imre
PS:
Cheating as in mwl8k supports the 8764 Avastar radio and mwifiex supports
11ac, but well...
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