Re: [PATCH v5] Add new mac80211 driver mwlwifi.

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>]

Chor Teck Law <ctlaw@marvell.com> writes:

>> You have named the new driver as mwlwifi, which is a really generic
>> name. Does that imply that mwlwifi will start supporting more Marvell
>> devices in the future? 
>
> Yes, that is the plan on same generation of 11ac chipset that support
> host-based mac80211.
>
>> Or will be in the situation that you fork the
>> driver again and we end up having mwlwifi2, mwlwifi3 and so on?
>> 
>
> We do intend to add interface HAL spec version to mwlwifi in case the
> lower HAL becomes unavoidably changed in future, so that we can
> continue to maintain mwlwifi.

Very good.

> But for different generation of future chipsets/new technology, when
> the hardware no longer permit us to use same driver, we will have to
> re-evaluate our options. We cannot guarantee something way out into
> the future.

Yeah, that's understandable. But the community really dislikes having
duplicated code/functionality, so please keep this in mind.

If you can submit the next version soon we could try to get this driver
to 4.4. We have few more weeks.

-- 
Kalle Valo