On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 11:24:11AM +1000, Tobin C. Harding wrote: > > Every other time a wifi driver has moved out of staging, the author has > > just given up on the staging driver, and rewritten it "properly" and > > gotten that rewrite merged as one patch, into the real part of the > > kernel, and after that is merged, we delete the staging driver. > > > > Doing it that way is _much_ easier for the developer, as you don't have > > to deal with any interm state at all, you can tear the thing apart and > > put it back together on your own, and just submit the end result. > > > > I strongly recommend doing it this way, but it's up to you in the end :) > > I will follow your advice. I am not totally clear on the path into the > kernel once I have a re-written functional driver but let's cross that > bridge when we get to it. Just submit a patch adding your new driver to drivers/net/wireless/somewhere... to the correct mailing list, and all will be fine. When that gets accepted, let me know by either just emailing me, or sending me a patch to delete the old driver out of staging. good luck, and see you in LA! greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
