On Aug 01, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 10:39:58AM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: > > Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > Add mt76x0 driver for MT7610U based USB dongles. Currently driver > > > support only STA mode. > > > > > > mt76x0 is based on Jakub's mt7601u driver already included > > > in the kernel. I would like the driver be integrated as part > > > of mt76 (instead of separate driver in mediatek dir like mt7601u) > > > to utilize mt76 code for adding support for MT76x0 PCIe devices > > > in further development. > > > > So what's the future for mt7601u, are we going to delete it? What's > > Jakub's opinion about all this? And what's the delta featurewise between > > mt7601u and this driver? Which one will be loaded by default? > > mt7601u is driver for different chip: MT7601. This driver if for MT7610 > chip. There are lot of similarities between the drivers, but there are > bunch of differences too. And in the future development of mt76x0, due > to integration into mt76 and mt76x2u and adding support for PCIe chips, > the differences against mt7601u will be much be bigger. > > > Also I noticed that mt76 is missing an entry in MAINTAINERS file? Could > > someone send a separate patch to add that, please? > > The question is if Felix would like to be the maintainer? Otherwise who would > want to do this job? I think the best option would be to get some > commitment from Mediatek if that possible, maybe Sean Wang could aggree > to be the maintainer ? :-) Maybe add multiple maintainers? I think the best option is Felix (if he agrees) since he started the work and he has more experience/knowledge of the code Regards, Lorenzo > > Thanks > Stanislaw
