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Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:03:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:03:27 +0300 From: Dan Carpenter To: Luka Gejak Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: I need piece of advice regarding rtl8723bs Message-ID: References: <270B444B-3171-4FEB-A43F-CD33DFFAB518@linux.dev> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <270B444B-3171-4FEB-A43F-CD33DFFAB518@linux.dev> 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