Re: I need piece of advice regarding rtl8723bs

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 10:13:41AM +0100, Luka Gejak wrote:
> 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.

That's your decision to make, we can't tell anyone what to spend their
time on :)

That being said, converting the existing driver, in-place, is probably a
harder task than doing a new one "from scratch", if previous attempts
are any indication.  But that all depends on the developer involved.
So, it's your call.

thanks,

greg k-h