From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Chor Teck Law <ctlaw@marvell.com>
Cc: 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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] Add new mac80211 driver mwlwifi.
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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 13:11:21 +0300
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Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> writes:

> Chor Teck Law <ctlaw@marvell.com> writes:
>
>> But for different generation of future chipsets/new technology, when
>> the hardware no longer permit us to use same driver, we will have to
>> re-evaluate our options. We cannot guarantee something way out into
>> the future.
>
> Yeah, that's understandable. But the community really dislikes having
> duplicated code/functionality, so please keep this in mind.
>
> If you can submit the next version soon we could try to get this driver
> to 4.4. We have few more weeks.

I forgot to ask about the firmware image for this driver. Is that
available in linux-firmware.git?

-- 
Kalle Valo