From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 15:13:52 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/rtl8821au: switch upstream to abperiasamy In-Reply-To: <1469220888-2215-1-git-send-email-christian@paral.in> References: <1469220888-2215-1-git-send-email-christian@paral.in> Message-ID: <20160723151352.77eea94b@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:54:48 -0700, Christian Stewart wrote: > Switching to the very active and well maintained rtl8821au > fork at github.com/abperiasamy/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux. Is it really more active and maintained? This new github in fact has a lot less recent commits that the current github we're using. So it isn't really clear that this new github is a better "upstream". What makes you believe it is a better upstream? Also, what about the firmware? If it's no longer part of this new upstream project, how can people get the firmware? Is it part of linux-firmware? Not your fault, but it would be so much better if those people submitted such drivers to the staging tree of the official Linux kernel. This way, instead of having multiple separate efforts to cleanup/fix such drivers, there would be a single place. Thanks, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com