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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/14] Add mt76x0 driver
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Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo.bianconi@redhat.com> writes:

> On Aug 01, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Add mt76x0 driver for MT7610U based USB dongles. Currently driver
>> > support only STA mode.
>> >
>> > mt76x0 is based on Jakub's mt7601u driver already included
>> > in the kernel. I would like the driver be integrated as part
>> > of mt76 (instead of separate driver in mediatek dir like mt7601u)
>> > to utilize mt76 code for adding support for MT76x0 PCIe devices
>> > in further development.
>> 
>> So what's the future for mt7601u, are we going to delete it? What's
>> Jakub's opinion about all this? And what's the delta featurewise between
>> mt7601u and this driver? Which one will be loaded by default?
>
> I think we can integrate mt7601u in mt76 as soon as mt76x0 is merged since the
> code path is pretty similar. Jakub what do you think? (That was actually on my
> ToDo list :))
>
> For the moment I guess both drivers can coexist since the
> usb_device_id lists seem different

Ah, I didn't realise that. I was exactly worried that if we would now
have two drivers supporting same device ids, but very good if that's not
the case.

-- 
Kalle Valo