Re: I need piece of advice regarding rtl8723bs

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

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