From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sipsolutions.net (s3.sipsolutions.net [168.119.38.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DE31C2D78E for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2023 10:34:55 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=sipsolutions.net Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=sipsolutions.net Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=sipsolutions.net header.i=@sipsolutions.net header.b="KIcOGNmZ" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=sipsolutions.net; s=mail; h=MIME-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:References:In-Reply-To:Date:Cc:To:From:Subject:Message-ID:Sender :Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-To: Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID; bh=JE/wzep2Kl9fulvu7hozBAZLnaAXZolsk/A0oBuPFR0=; t=1698316495; x=1699526095; b=KIcOGNmZnV8r35k6pS4gkjb277YlW6FCqA7bJfjPPu7pfa2 EcVwdZohF7wDQ0NQpUaPYS2me1neshbV6C+NAOvn0NEck1Zqz6XezYptTvbnkoJzKaZmLte61s58F 46D+SOA8cQ0h2aCzr/nl+ngX6jCku99PtuOK3AMG6/ZsyMM4a5Okc3jMxzDCdaSOhwVSKAMu6+Fz7 YzNMUl3fItQb3X6vLIj2Wb8R1tG8JdOy9g2nZCHQiOqIJ/3DzpV90kuY4K8LxMUiRo4fdrs9ETRm+ P54Epz4YHfyMKtbO4IiemIlezUDhuRwRhKfclkYTPmwJ3u7z602rTGqnlISBLMNg==; Received: by sipsolutions.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_X25519__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM:256) (Exim 4.97-RC1) (envelope-from ) id 1qvx1A-00000003a91-3X6O; Thu, 26 Oct 2023 11:51:09 +0200 Message-ID: <14bd2e39338dd755f7bfde23a93563865580ee83.camel@sipsolutions.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] [RFC] wifi: remove ipw2100/ipw2200 drivers From: Johannes Berg To: Kalle Valo , Philipp Hortmann Cc: Witold Baryluk , arnd@kernel.org, Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net, alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com, arnd@arndb.de, claudiu.beznea@tuxon.dev, davem@davemloft.net, geert@linux-m68k.org, geoff@infradead.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, gregory.greenman@intel.com, ilw@linux.intel.com, kuba@kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, nicolas.ferre@microchip.com, pavel@ucw.cz, quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com, stas.yakovlev@gmail.com, stf_xl@wp.pl Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 11:51:07 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87jzr9d883.fsf@kernel.org> References: <87jzr9d883.fsf@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.48.4 (3.48.4-1.fc38) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-malware-bazaar: not-scanned On Thu, 2023-10-26 at 12:49 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: > Philipp Hortmann writes: >=20 > > On 10/26/23 00:27, Witold Baryluk wrote: > > > I might be interested in modernizing the driver, but I have no idea > > > how much effort it would be (in terms of changed fraction of code). > > > 20k LOC is neither small or big, and not obvious (a lot of it would > > > be unchanged), if it is a week of work, or months of work. > >=20 > > Hi Witold, > >=20 > > I am trying to do this with rtl8192e. > > One possibility is to take the following patch series as a starting poi= nt: > > https://yhbt.net/lore/all/1414604649-9105-1-git-send-email-tvboxspy@gma= il.com/ > >=20 > > For me as a beginner and hobbyist this is a huge task. I am happy when > > I can finish it until next summer. >=20 > We also have some docs available: >=20 > https://docs.kernel.org/driver-api/80211/ >=20 > And I also recommend looking at our hwsim driver as that gives a good > idea how a simple mac80211 driver works: >=20 FWIW, I don't think this can be ported to mac80211 - only cfg80211. It's a fullMAC device. johannes