Re: [PATCH] Add new mac80211 driver mwlwifi.

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>]

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

> On 09/06/2015 03:24 PM, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:
>>
>>> On Thu, 2015-06-04 at 04:57 +0000, David Lin wrote:
>>>
>>>>   drivers/net/wireless/mwlwifi/Kconfig        |   17 +
>>>
>>> Does this driver has any relation to mwifiex? Perhaps the same
>>> maintainer team, etc.? Could consider moving all the Marvell drivers
>>> into one directory, but not really necessary I guess.
>>
>> Actually I would want to start adding vendor directories for wireless
>> drivers, just like drivers/net/ethernet has, to cleanup the directory
>> structure. So for example this driver we would have
>> drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwlwifi and later we would start moving
>> existing drivers to vendor drivers as well. Thoughts?
>
> Right now our umbrella folder is brcm80211. I am fine changing it to
> broadcom if explicit vendor names are preferred although brcm80211
> still has my personal preference.

In your case I was actually thinking of moving it to broadcom/brcm80211.
And then we would also have broadcom/b43 and broadcom/b43legacy. So the
only change is addition of a new directory. How does that sound?

-- 
Kalle Valo