Re: [PATCH v3 00/14] Add mt76x0 driver

[Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On Aug 01, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 10:39:58AM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> > Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> writes:
> > 
> > > Add mt76x0 driver for MT7610U based USB dongles. Currently driver
> > > support only STA mode.
> > >
> > > mt76x0 is based on Jakub's mt7601u driver already included
> > > in the kernel. I would like the driver be integrated as part
> > > of mt76 (instead of separate driver in mediatek dir like mt7601u)
> > > to utilize mt76 code for adding support for MT76x0 PCIe devices
> > > in further development.
> > 
> > So what's the future for mt7601u, are we going to delete it? What's
> > Jakub's opinion about all this? And what's the delta featurewise between
> > mt7601u and this driver? Which one will be loaded by default?
> 
> mt7601u is driver for different chip: MT7601. This driver if for MT7610
> chip. There are lot of similarities between the drivers, but there are
> bunch of differences too. And in the future development of mt76x0, due
> to integration into mt76 and mt76x2u and adding support for PCIe chips,
> the differences against mt7601u will be much be bigger.
> 
> > Also I noticed that mt76 is missing an entry in MAINTAINERS file? Could
> > someone send a separate patch to add that, please?
> 
> The question is if Felix would like to be the maintainer? Otherwise who would
> want to do this job? I think the best option would be to get some
> commitment from Mediatek if that possible, maybe Sean Wang could aggree
> to be the maintainer ? :-)

Maybe add multiple maintainers? I think the best option is Felix (if he agrees)
since he started the work and he has more experience/knowledge of the code

Regards,
Lorenzo

> 
> Thanks
> Stanislaw