Re: [PATCH 1/1] wifi: nl80211: Add support for plumbing SAE groups to driver

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Tue, 2024-02-13 at 13:19 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 2/13/2024 12:45 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Tue, 2024-02-13 at 12:13 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> > > 
> > > I recall the rule was that nl80211 API changes
> > > should also have at least one driver implementing it. Guess we let that
> > > slip a couple of times. I fully agree enforcing this.
> > 
> > Well, enforcing it strictly never really worked all that well in
> > practice, since you don't necessarily want to have a complex driver
> > implementation while hashing out the API, and the API fundamentally has
> > to come first.
> > 
> > So in a sense it comes down to trust, and that people will actually
> > follow up with implementations. And yeah, plans can change and you end
> > up not really supporting everything that was defined ... that's life, I
> > guess.
> > 
> > But the mode here seems to be that there's not even any _intent_ to do
> > that?
> > 
> > I guess we could hash out the API, review the patches, and then _not_
> > apply them until a driver is ready? So the first round of reviews would
> > still come with API only, but once that settles we don't actually merge
> > it immediately, unlike normally where we merge a patch we've reviewed?
> > And then if whoever did it lost interest, we already have a reviewed
> > version for anyone else who might need it?
> 
> Sounds like a plan. Maybe they can get a separate state in patchwork and 
> let them sit there for grabs.

I guess I can leave them open as 'under review' or something? Not sure
we can add other states.

johannes