Hi David,
On 02.10.24 03:29, David Lin wrote:
Mwifiex has been put in “Odds Fixes” state for quite some time.
What I read: NXP (who has taken over the Marvell BLE/Wi-Fi business) is
not willing to maintain products once they have sold it.
Now we have planned to add series of new chips and features.
Although some of the codes are from Mwifiex, we do spend much effort to enhance the FW/driver interfaces and a few other areas
Our proposal is, mwifiex continues support only existing devices.
mwifiex does not continue to do anything on its own, it requires
continuous maintenance. And NXP is not doing that:
$ git log --no-merges --oneline drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/ |
wc -l
643
$ git log --no-merges drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/ | grep
^Author:.*nxp.com | wc -l
7
New NXP connectivity chips and features will be added to nxpwifi only.
We are also committed to regular QA and maintenance for nxpwifi.
What I read: NXP is eager to support new hardware, but does not take
adequate support of hardware they sold in the past.
May I know what is your concern on upstream this driver so we can better address it?
From my PoV as a potential customer: NXP cleaning up the mwifiex driver
would give me confidence that whatever comes next from NXP will be taken
care of adequately too. Also in the long term, which is a must when
choosing components for products that need to be supported for many
years to come.
Kind regards,
Reto
