From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
Cc: Chor Teck Law <ctlaw@marvell.com>, David Lin <dlin@marvell.com>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
"linux-wireless\@vger.kernel.org"
<linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>, Pete Hsieh <peteh@marvell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] Add new mac80211 driver mwlwifi.
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2015 13:37:04 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874mj6frcf.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150804224951.GA31383@sakura.staff.proxad.net> (Maxime Bizon's message of "Wed, 5 Aug 2015 00:49:51 +0200")
Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr> writes:
> but from my POV, your pattern is: build new chipset, obsolete previous
> chipset, fork current firmware, make uncompatible changes to both
> firmware & host driver to accomodate new chipset peculiarities.
>
> and eventually, if a customer requests a mainline linux driver, then
> write one... this is what I'd call "dumping"
BTW, this is exactly what I meant with "dumping" as well. Having
multiple drivers with similar functionality is difficult for everyone.
Creating a new driver with new bugs is much worse than making smaller,
incremental changes to the existing driver. And of course code sharing
is always preferred, but not a hard requirement for drivers.
--
Kalle Valo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-07 10:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-03 6:10 [PATCH v5] Add new mac80211 driver mwlwifi David Lin
2015-07-03 9:51 ` Johannes Berg
2015-07-08 0:14 ` David Lin
2015-07-04 10:40 ` Jonas Gorski
2015-07-05 10:33 ` Johannes Berg
2015-07-05 10:57 ` Jonas Gorski
2015-07-07 1:47 ` David Lin
2015-07-07 9:38 ` Jonas Gorski
2015-07-07 9:50 ` Imre Kaloz
2015-07-07 13:48 ` Chor Teck Law
2015-07-07 14:20 ` Jonas Gorski
2015-07-07 14:35 ` Imre Kaloz
2015-07-07 14:56 ` Chor Teck Law
2015-07-09 15:27 ` Maxime Bizon
2015-08-04 17:02 ` Kalle Valo
2015-08-04 18:11 ` Chor Teck Law
2015-08-04 22:49 ` Maxime Bizon
2015-09-07 10:37 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2015-08-04 22:09 ` Maxime Bizon
2015-08-05 8:39 ` Chor Teck Law
2015-08-05 14:21 ` Maxime Bizon
2015-08-05 15:29 ` Chor Teck Law
2015-09-07 11:20 ` Kalle Valo
2015-09-11 13:43 ` Chor Teck Law
2015-09-29 9:03 ` Kalle Valo
2015-09-29 10:11 ` Kalle Valo
2015-09-30 2:05 ` David Lin
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