I need piece of advice regarding rtl8723bs

I need piece of advice regarding rtl8723bs

[Luka Gejak]

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

Re: I need piece of advice regarding rtl8723bs

[Dan Carpenter]

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

Re: I need piece of advice regarding rtl8723bs

[Luka Gejak]

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

Re: I need piece of advice regarding rtl8723bs

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

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

Re: I need piece of advice regarding rtl8723bs

[Luka Gejak]

On March 11, 2026 10:27:29 AM GMT+01:00, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>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

Hi Greg,
Thank you for responding, I am actually writing it from scratch, and I believe I am going to spend my time working on the driver as I believe it will bring more good in the long run and because I believe I will get it working in near future.
Sincerely, Luka Gejak