Chor Teck Law <ctlaw@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> You have named the new driver as mwlwifi, which is a really generic >> name. Does that imply that mwlwifi will start supporting more Marvell >> devices in the future? > > Yes, that is the plan on same generation of 11ac chipset that support > host-based mac80211. > >> Or will be in the situation that you fork the >> driver again and we end up having mwlwifi2, mwlwifi3 and so on? >> > > We do intend to add interface HAL spec version to mwlwifi in case the > lower HAL becomes unavoidably changed in future, so that we can > continue to maintain mwlwifi. Very good. > But for different generation of future chipsets/new technology, when > the hardware no longer permit us to use same driver, we will have to > re-evaluate our options. We cannot guarantee something way out into > the future. Yeah, that's understandable. But the community really dislikes having duplicated code/functionality, so please keep this in mind. If you can submit the next version soon we could try to get this driver to 4.4. We have few more weeks. -- Kalle Valo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
