On Aug 01, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:

On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 10:39:58AM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:

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Stanislaw Gruszka [off-list ref] writes:

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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?

mt7601u is driver for different chip: MT7601. This driver if for MT7610
chip. There are lot of similarities between the drivers, but there are
bunch of differences too. And in the future development of mt76x0, due
to integration into mt76 and mt76x2u and adding support for PCIe chips,
the differences against mt7601u will be much be bigger.

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Also I noticed that mt76 is missing an entry in MAINTAINERS file? Could
someone send a separate patch to add that, please?

The question is if Felix would like to be the maintainer? Otherwise who would
want to do this job? I think the best option would be to get some
commitment from Mediatek if that possible, maybe Sean Wang could aggree
to be the maintainer ? :-)

Maybe add multiple maintainers? I think the best option is Felix (if he agrees)
since he started the work and he has more experience/knowledge of the code

Regards,
Lorenzo

Thanks
Stanislaw