From: Chor Teck Law <ctlaw@marvell.com>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
CC: David Lin <dlin@marvell.com>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Pete Hsieh <peteh@marvell.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] Add new mac80211 driver mwlwifi.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 14:03:08 +0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kalle Valo [mailto:kvalo@codeaurora.org]
> Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2015 6:25 AM
> 
> Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> 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.? 

The mwlwifi driver is hostmac supporting mac80211. The mwifiex driver is device/hw mac, that does not work with mac80211. They are both maintained by Marvell. Yes, their respective maintainers are connected under same teams.

> > 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?
> 

Yes, we are ok with this folder hierarchy change. Let us know how we can help. Should we start with this new folder now or wait for more feedbacks?

> --
> Kalle Valo