Return-path: Received: from smtp.codeaurora.org ([198.145.29.96]:56501 "EHLO smtp.codeaurora.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751202AbbIFQrK (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Sep 2015 12:47:10 -0400 From: Kalle Valo To: Arend van Spriel Cc: Johannes Berg , David Lin , "linux-wireless\@vger.kernel.org" , Pete Hsieh , "Chor Teck Law" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new mac80211 driver mwlwifi. References: <6d9f23a4a8bf4315b0c7630a9a1c37ad@SC-EXCH02.marvell.com> <1433598191.2467.65.camel@sipsolutions.net> <877fo3he8y.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> <55EC6453.3000601@broadcom.com> Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2015 19:46:58 +0300 In-Reply-To: <55EC6453.3000601@broadcom.com> (Arend van Spriel's message of "Sun, 6 Sep 2015 18:05:39 +0200") Message-ID: <87pp1vfqbh.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> (sfid-20150906_184713_785625_CA561B77) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Arend van Spriel writes: > On 09/06/2015 03:24 PM, Kalle Valo wrote: >> Johannes Berg writes: >> >>> On Thu, 2015-06-04 at 04:57 +0000, David Lin wrote: >>> >>>> drivers/net/wireless/mwlwifi/Kconfig | 17 + >>> >>> Does this driver has any relation to mwifiex? Perhaps the same >>> maintainer team, etc.? Could consider moving all the Marvell drivers >>> into one directory, but not really necessary I guess. >> >> Actually I would want to start adding vendor directories for wireless >> drivers, just like drivers/net/ethernet has, to cleanup the directory >> structure. So for example this driver we would have >> drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwlwifi and later we would start moving >> existing drivers to vendor drivers as well. Thoughts? > > Right now our umbrella folder is brcm80211. I am fine changing it to > broadcom if explicit vendor names are preferred although brcm80211 > still has my personal preference. In your case I was actually thinking of moving it to broadcom/brcm80211. And then we would also have broadcom/b43 and broadcom/b43legacy. So the only change is addition of a new directory. How does that sound? -- Kalle Valo