Re: Two rtlwifi drivers?

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 11:38:06AM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> > So what to do?  Any ideas?  What makes your life easier?  You can just
> > ignore the staging tree, as it should not affect your portion of the
> > kernel at all, right?
> 
> Yes, I automatically ignore anything staging related. But the problem is
> that we now have two drivers with the same name and people don't always
> remember to prefix the patch with "staging: ". So on a bad day I might
> accidentally apply a patch which was meant for your tree. Of course I
> immediately revert it as soon as I, or someone else, catches that but
> annoying still.

It doesn't bother me if you apply staging patches, I can handle the
merge issues :)

> I think we have two options here:
> 
> 1) We set a deadline (like 12 months or something) for the
>    drivers/staging/rtlwifi and after that you refuse to take any patches
>    for it. Hopefully this makes it clear for everyone that this fork is
>    just temporary. I think Larry is trying to do this, which is great.

Fine with me, if Larry is ok with it.

> 2) We move the whole rtlwifi driver to staging. A very bad option but
>    still better than forking the drivers.

Ick, I don't want that to have to happen, that would not be good for the
users of other devices that the "real" rtlwifi driver supports.

thanks,

greg k-h