From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail2.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.173]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.85_2 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1bF8UK-0002yP-Cj for ath10k@lists.infradead.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2016 23:20:16 +0000 Subject: Re: Stand-alone ath10k-ct driver. References: <57686587.9050607@candelatech.com> <1c702fd0-677c-82e3-ddbe-ab4335a4a1a6@dd-wrt.com> From: Ben Greear Message-ID: <57687A05.3080400@candelatech.com> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 16:19:33 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1c702fd0-677c-82e3-ddbe-ab4335a4a1a6@dd-wrt.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: "ath10k" Errors-To: ath10k-bounces+kvalo=adurom.com@lists.infradead.org To: Sebastian Gottschall , ath10k@lists.infradead.org On 06/20/2016 04:11 PM, Sebastian Gottschall wrote: > Am 20.06.2016 um 23:52 schrieb Ben Greear: >> Hello! >> >> I have made an attempt to provide a stand-alone ath10k driver that should compile >> and work against stock 4.7 kernels. This should provide better support for CT ath10k >> firmware without having to apply large numbers of patches. My 4.7 kernel has only been very lightly tested >> to date, and the stand-alone driver is only compile tested. I will update the >> ath-ct repo often as testing progresses on 4.7. >> >> If there are brave souls that want to try it out, I'd appreciate any feedback. >> >> https://github.com/greearb/ath-ct >> >> See the README.txt for some details. This will require at least some familiarity >> with building kernels since I do not have any nice automation to compile against >> the current running kernel yet, for instance. >> > why dont you use compat-wireless / backports as base? > so you can use your driver in any kernel version Just no time to deal with backports, and if I have just a stand-alone driver, then it is easier for folks to use it in whatever kernel they already happen to be using. Hopefully some project that is already using a 4.7-ish backport can compile my driver against that and have it just work, for instance. Since I'm finding so many regressions when I rebase, and rebasing makes it almost impossible to bisect between kernels, then maybe it would just be better if I maintained a parallel drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k-ct/, and just applied patches from ../ath10k/ manually on top of my own stuff. At least that way I could bisect regressions.... Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com _______________________________________________ ath10k mailing list ath10k@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath10k