From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 23:30:37 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v1 1/1] rtl8821au: new package In-Reply-To: References: <1436914861-10912-1-git-send-email-christian@paral.in> <20150718232609.5828891c@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20150720233037.1a9da56a@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Christian, Please do not reply to me directly, keep the list in Cc. Thanks. On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 20:55:09 +0000, Christian Stewart wrote: > I didn't see the kernel module infrastructure before, not really sure how I > missed it. I remember looking closely at the manual. The kernel module infra is brand new, it was merged like 10 days ago. > I put it under linux-firmware because I thought that was where all of the > wifi related drivers should go. But I think you're right that it should be > separate. Yes, it's not a firmware per-se. > The reason why I'm using my version of the driver is because it's based on > an entirely different wifi driver release from the other repository you've > linked. Mine is based on v4.3.14_13455.20150212_BTCOEX20150128-51 while > theirs is based on a version from a couple years ago. Thus mine is actually > closer to the vendor version, with some fixups. > > Is it okay to use this version? I suppose it's not possible to directly download the vendor version? If not, then using your Github repo is probably OK. The issue is of course that in 6-12 months, you'll probably stop caring about this driver, and no-one will be able to upstream fixes anymore. But I guess that's the normal life-cycle for out of tree kernel drivers, unfortunately. Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com