On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 01:16:20PM +0900, Hector Martin wrote: > > > On 2023/12/20 10:44, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Put another way: if we effectively don't have a driver maintainer that > > can test things, and somebody is willing to step up, shouldn't we take > > that person up on it? > > Personally, I do think the rPi folks themselves should step up for > *testing* at the very least. I did point them at our downstream WiFi > branch at one point during a previous discussion and haven't heard back, > so either they never tested it, or they did and it didn't break > anything. If they're shipping popular Linux hardware where the WiFi > chipset vendor has fully and completely checked out of any upstream > support, they need to either accept that upstream support will likely > break at some point (because that's just what happens when nobody cares > about a given piece of hardware, especially with drivers shared across > others like this one) or they need to proactively step up and take on, > minimally, an early testing role themselves. I'm agree that downstream (e.g. rPi) developers should also participating in upstream kernel development. Also Cc: rPi folks to solicit their opinions. Thanks. -- An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara
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