From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Sebastian Gottschall <s.gottschall@dd-wrt.com>,
ath10k@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Stand-alone ath10k-ct driver.
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 16:19:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57687A05.3080400@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1c702fd0-677c-82e3-ddbe-ab4335a4a1a6@dd-wrt.com>
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
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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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2016-06-20 21:52 Stand-alone ath10k-ct driver Ben Greear
2016-06-20 23:11 ` Sebastian Gottschall
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