Search Linux Wireless

Re: [RFC 00/12] rtwlan: mac80211 driver for Realtek 802.11ac wireless network chips

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



(adding greg)

Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 8:12 AM Stanislaw Gruszka
> <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>     On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 02:03:55PM +0800, yhchuang@xxxxxxxxxxx
>     wrote:
>     
>     I didn't do detailed review, but my general impression is very
>     very
>     positive. New driver looks great!
>     
>     Just 2 generic remarks:
>     - please add MAINTAINERS file entry
>     - please post a patch or request to remove staging/rtlwifi driver
>     since this one is replace for it (8822BE PCI-ID is the same)
>
> Keep in mind that the new driver is going into wireless, and the old
> one is in staging. With separate maintainers, doing this in a single
> series of commits is very difficult to coordinate. One way would be to
> submit the deletion patch to GregKH (or whomever is maintaining
> staging) with a note that it should be held until rtwlan appears in
> mainline, and then submitted directly to mainline as well as staging.
> I'm sure there will be a solution, just that it cannot be handled as a
> normal patch set.

My guess is that Greg would be ok that we remove the staging driver via
wireless-drivers-next at the same time as we apply the new driver to
drivers/net/wireless. But let's coordinate that with Greg once this new
driver is ready for commit, we are not quite there yet.

-- 
Kalle Valo



[Index of Archives]     [Linux Host AP]     [ATH6KL]     [Linux Wireless Personal Area Network]     [Linux Bluetooth]     [Wireless Regulations]     [Linux Netdev]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Linux Kernel]     [IDE]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite Hiking]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux RAID]

  Powered by Linux