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Re: [PATCH v2 9/9] wifi: mt76: mt7996: add driver for MediaTek Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) devices

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Ryder Lee <Ryder.Lee@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Mon, 2022-11-21 at 17:07 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> Shayne Chen <shayne.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>> > Add MediaTek new mac80211 driver mt7996 for Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be)
>> > devices.
>> > The driver first supports Filogic 680 PCI device, which is a Wi-Fi
>> > 7
>> > chipset supporting concurrent tri-band operation at 6 GHz, 5 GHz,
>> > and
>> > 2.4 GHz with 4x4 antennas on each band.
>> > 
>> > Currently, mt7996 only supports tri-band HE or older mode.
>> > EHT mode and more variants of Filogic 680 support will be
>> > introduced
>> > in further patches.
>> > 
>> > Reviewed-by: Ryder Lee <ryder.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Co-developed-by: Peter Chiu <chui-hao.chiu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Signed-off-by: Peter Chiu <chui-hao.chiu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Co-developed-by: Bo Jiao <Bo.Jiao@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Signed-off-by: Bo Jiao <Bo.Jiao@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Co-developed-by: Howard Hsu <howard-yh.hsu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Signed-off-by: Howard Hsu <howard-yh.hsu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Co-developed-by: MeiChia Chiu <meichia.chiu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Signed-off-by: MeiChia Chiu <meichia.chiu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Co-developed-by: StanleyYP Wang <StanleyYP.Wang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Signed-off-by: StanleyYP Wang <StanleyYP.Wang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Co-developed-by: Money Wang <Money.Wang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Signed-off-by: Money Wang <Money.Wang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Co-developed-by: Evelyn Tsai <evelyn.tsai@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Signed-off-by: Evelyn Tsai <evelyn.tsai@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Signed-off-by: Shayne Chen <shayne.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > ---
>> >  drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/Kconfig    |    1 +
>> >  drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/Makefile   |    1 +
>> >  .../net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/Kconfig |   12 +
>> >  .../wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/Makefile    |    6 +
>> >  .../wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/debugfs.c   |  851 ++++
>> >  .../net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/dma.c   |  360 ++
>> >  .../wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/eeprom.c    |  229 ++
>> >  .../wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/eeprom.h    |   75 +
>> >  .../net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/init.c  |  816 ++++
>> >  .../net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/mac.c   | 2468 ++++++++++++
>> >  .../net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/mac.h   |  398 ++
>> >  .../net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/main.c  | 1325 +++++++
>> >  .../net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/mcu.c   | 3428
>> > +++++++++++++++++
>> >  .../net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/mcu.h   |  662 ++++
>> >  .../net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/mmio.c  |  385 ++
>> >  .../wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/mt7996.h    |  516 +++
>> >  .../net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/pci.c   |  222 ++
>> >  .../net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/regs.h  |  533 +++
>> >  18 files changed, 12288 insertions(+)
>> 
>> This patch is too big, please split it. One patch per file is a good
>> rule of thumb.
>> 
>
> Hi Kalle,
>
> Thanks for comments.
>
> It's a bit hard to adjugement to us actually. We'd prefer to keeping
> one topic (wifi7 thing support for this case) one patch. I guess add
> code that is nor used or does not compile could get other complaints.

Applying it to the git tree as one big commit is fine, but for reviews I
always recommend splitting new drivers to one file per patch. I tried to
review this huge patch and gave up, it was just too difficult.

> Given that the series has been merged to Felix's tree (and couple
> patches are being applied on top of his tree)... but we will take care
> of this part next time and split the series by functionality as much as
> we can. What do you think?

One option is to send followup patches to handle the issues found during
review.

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