Kalle and Greg,
Once again I find myself in the awkward position of needing to submit code to
two different trees, i.e. wireless and staging.
The code in question concerns a new Realtek device, the RTL8822BE. The device is
already shipping, and Realtek would like it to be available in kernel 3.14. As
it consists of ~120,000 new lines of code, I have assured Realtek that 3.14
would not be possible, at least in the wireless tree. What I plan to do is
submit the changes in the existing drivers through wireless, and the three
totally new drivers through staging. My expectation is that this code would live
for a relatively short time there, but going that route would give time for the
code to be reviewed properly, but still be available in a kernel driver. All of
the new code will be available in a GitHub repo maintained by Realtek for those
users whose distros do not configure anything in staging.
For my part, I will push the wireless tree material as fast as I can and hope
there is time available near the end of the 4.13-rcX sequence for the material
to reach 4.14-rc1.
Thanks for your understanding and help.
Larry
