Return-path: Received: from mail-gw2-out.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.63]:62631 "EHLO mail-gw2-out.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750871AbbIFQFm (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Sep 2015 12:05:42 -0400 Message-ID: <55EC6453.3000601@broadcom.com> (sfid-20150906_180547_311447_B221A592) Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2015 18:05:39 +0200 From: Arend van Spriel MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kalle Valo , Johannes Berg CC: 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> In-Reply-To: <877fo3he8y.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. Regards, Arend