Re: [RFC 00/12] rtwlan: mac80211 driver for Realtek 802.11ac wireless network chips

(adding greg)

Larry Finger [off-list ref] writes:

On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 8:12 AM Stanislaw Gruszka
[off-list ref] wrote:

    On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 02:03:55PM +0800, yhchuang@realtek.com
    wrote:
    
    I didn't do detailed review, but my general impression is very
    very
    positive. New driver looks great!
    
    Just 2 generic remarks:
    - please add MAINTAINERS file entry
    - please post a patch or request to remove staging/rtlwifi driver
    since this one is replace for it (8822BE PCI-ID is the same)

Keep in mind that the new driver is going into wireless, and the old
one is in staging. With separate maintainers, doing this in a single
series of commits is very difficult to coordinate. One way would be to
submit the deletion patch to GregKH (or whomever is maintaining
staging) with a note that it should be held until rtwlan appears in
mainline, and then submitted directly to mainline as well as staging.
I'm sure there will be a solution, just that it cannot be handled as a
normal patch set.

My guess is that Greg would be ok that we remove the staging driver via
wireless-drivers-next at the same time as we apply the new driver to
drivers/net/wireless. But let's coordinate that with Greg once this new
driver is ready for commit, we are not quite there yet.

-- 
Kalle Valo