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From: Jonas Gorski <jogo@openwrt.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 16:20:56 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] Add new mac80211 driver mwlwifi.
To: Chor Teck Law <ctlaw@marvell.com>
Cc: Imre Kaloz <kaloz@openwrt.org>, David Lin <dlin@marvell.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Pete Hsieh <peteh@marvell.com>
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On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Chor Teck Law <ctlaw@marvell.com> wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Imre Kaloz [mailto:kaloz@openwrt.org]
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 2:50 AM
>> To: David Lin; Jonas Gorski
>> Cc: Johannes Berg; linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; Chor Teck Law; Pete
>> Hsieh
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] Add new mac80211 driver mwlwifi.
>>
>> On Tue, 07 Jul 2015 11:38:32 +0200, Jonas Gorski <jogo@openwrt.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> >>> I think it would be good to have some more precise description here
>> >>> (something like "Marvell 88W8864/8897 PCIe driver with AP
>> support").
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> Will change the title from "Marvell Wireless Wi-Fi driver (mwlwifi)"
>> >> to "Marvell 88W8864/88W8897 PCIe driver with AP support".
>> >
>> > As Imre pointed out, mwifiex also supports AP mode, so this is not a
>> > good description.
>
> We have explained a few times on this... Pls read about the difference of mwifiex vs mwlwifi. There is a NOTE added to the description of KConfig of mwlwifi.
>
> Would the community prefer this description instead: "Marvell 88W8864/88W8897 driver with MAC80211 support"?

Let's keep the name as is and do a cleanup / naming discussion
seperate of that. This should not block the acceptance of the driver.


Jonas