From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (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 7728F3C6618; Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:27:46 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1773221266; cv=none; b=hK8kMoPJ2eLNY6voPI8b4r8fCNY89htLymOzRe08NPyqO11NrKzL2oFqYQr+nRHsBdUy0SIYbcpswNjazgmoXBXf4EZjLHCH9BxCtq7MoiQYjV3G8h2OJq3wxz7itExLsMKtsP3kYbYTnOS93eO9pNwKYS8WMy/JTO6PBz984UY= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1773221266; c=relaxed/simple; bh=ISmz1XamJOL2cmzXww30vfMMedodq78km94WW1O1pR8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=iNfzjeItrv/6RYstaFuH+KDZ2MZVGcuoSq7rFgmQdC0gLR0zxTOCKn0dqGshWZLDFEhlPTQGRMjIw1IgnMtqkGVYbCE9b92jg2PfswCEE6QG5UAaoEOl7B8pl2+3x61TnWHImwIiCJFTCFSN3PoHHcTx9gqrF0WAu5q3s68foLU= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=KywX9LJi; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="KywX9LJi" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 815D9C2BC86; Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:27:45 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1773221265; bh=ISmz1XamJOL2cmzXww30vfMMedodq78km94WW1O1pR8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=KywX9LJi/irAksv1gdWq1mjeInh5G1t0vKzwJYe7H3zuu612qr8bLSydX+BgBpBvu bZmpmMWaFiE57HmzduqdYenKDXCbNl1GHy+bfplX51EIUUAnL/0+EVFY5WjELayV/z E67jjtRSd9LJPZ9zZGwoaKfvm+/h68EKTST9y5gM= Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:27:29 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Luka Gejak Cc: Dan Carpenter , linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: I need piece of advice regarding rtl8723bs Message-ID: <2026031119-retract-obnoxious-0306@gregkh> References: <270B444B-3171-4FEB-A43F-CD33DFFAB518@linux.dev> <0A9F09AD-0082-489F-878A-0899CB6F7413@linux.dev> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0A9F09AD-0082-489F-878A-0899CB6F7413@linux.dev> 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 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