Re: [PATCH V2 0/7] brcmfmac: support devices from multiple vendors

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>]

Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> writes:

> On 11/29/2022 2:54 PM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>> Took my sweet time coming with this follow-up series, but here
>> it is. Hopefully, sending patches is working for me now.
>>
>> The bcm43xx family of wifi chipsets found its way to different
>> groups inside and outside Broadcom. For the fullmac devices this
>> means that in those difference groups firmware is being developed
>> and the firmware api is bound to diverge. This series introduces
>> a design change to accomodate supporting multiple firmware api's.
>> The vender-specific support can be compiled in brcmfmac or
>> built as a separate module. Currently the vendor-specific support
>> does not have any real effect. At the momemt looking into SAE support
>> which appear to be different for Cypress devices so that might be a
>> first use-case.
>>
>> The patches apply to the main branch of the wireless-next repository.
>
> Just realized I forgot the 'wifi:' prefix. Hopefully you can forgive
> me this time? If not, I can resend.

Yeah, I can add that. When we switched to using "wifi:" I was mentally
(and in my tools) prepared to adding those the next couple of years :)

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