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

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On Fri, 2015-07-03 at 06:10 +0000, David Lin wrote:

Hello,

> The Linux driver for WRT1900AC. The work was initially developed as
> part of openwrt effort and maintained on
> https://github.com/kaloz/mwlwifi.

I see *massive* code duplication with the mwl8k driver.

This is, I guess, not a surprise since the supported chipset are an
evolution of the ones supported by mwl8k, just look at how close/similar
the descriptor format is.

The problem is that each new Marvell chipset comes with a new firmware
version, and there is no effort to have a common firmware API or code
base that supports multiple chipsets.

That pushes the bloat on the kernel side, do we really agree on that ?

-- 
Maxime


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