Re: I need piece of advice regarding rtl8723bs

[Luka Gejak <luka.gejak@linux.dev>]

On March 11, 2026 9:03:27 AM GMT+01:00, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org> wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 08:21:47AM +0100, Luka Gejak wrote:
>> Hi Greg, 
>> Sorry if I am taking a lot of your time or disrupting your workflow,
>> but I would like a piece of advice regarding staging/rtl8723bs. As
>> you may already know(or you may not), I am working on port of
>> rtl8723bs to mac80211 architecture. I am currently on stage on
>> getting wifi scans to work(I can bring up interface, and I believe
>> that I am close to getting scans working as well) so I want to ask
>> you if you recommend making patches for staging/rtl8723bs as once I
>> finish the driver and begin process of upstreaming it
>> staging/rtl8723bs will be irrelevant/deleted(or will it?).
>> Thank you for your time, Luka Gejak
>
>I'm not 100% sure what you are asking...
>
>If you want to port rtl8723bs to mac80211, that's great.  We love
>that.  When it's ready we can review it.
>
>Until then people are free to change staging/rtl8723bs if they want to.
>Your work on the port is future work.  We can't really be confident of
>anything that will happen in the future so we just go on with what we
>have.
>
>When your driver is merged and it supports all the hardware that
>staging/rtl8723bs does then we'll drop the staging driver.  We never
>keep two drivers for the same code.
>
>regards,
>dan carpenter

Hi Dan,
Let me clarify, I am decently sure that I can make driver work and I want to ask if I should focus of development of that driver or if I should take time to contribute to staging/rtl8723bs as well.
Sincerely Luka Gejak