Two rtlwifi drivers?
Greg Kroah-Hartman
gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Oct 12 10:34:50 UTC 2017
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 11:38:06AM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> > So what to do? Any ideas? What makes your life easier? You can just
> > ignore the staging tree, as it should not affect your portion of the
> > kernel at all, right?
>
> Yes, I automatically ignore anything staging related. But the problem is
> that we now have two drivers with the same name and people don't always
> remember to prefix the patch with "staging: ". So on a bad day I might
> accidentally apply a patch which was meant for your tree. Of course I
> immediately revert it as soon as I, or someone else, catches that but
> annoying still.
It doesn't bother me if you apply staging patches, I can handle the
merge issues :)
> I think we have two options here:
>
> 1) We set a deadline (like 12 months or something) for the
> drivers/staging/rtlwifi and after that you refuse to take any patches
> for it. Hopefully this makes it clear for everyone that this fork is
> just temporary. I think Larry is trying to do this, which is great.
Fine with me, if Larry is ok with it.
> 2) We move the whole rtlwifi driver to staging. A very bad option but
> still better than forking the drivers.
Ick, I don't want that to have to happen, that would not be good for the
users of other devices that the "real" rtlwifi driver supports.
thanks,
greg k-h
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