Return-path: Received: from mail-gw2-out.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.63]:7092 "EHLO mail-gw2-out.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751037AbbIFQOs (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Sep 2015 12:14:48 -0400 Message-ID: <55EC6676.9050906@broadcom.com> (sfid-20150906_181452_708267_65A4AF3A) Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2015 18:14:46 +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> <55EC6453.3000601@broadcom.com> In-Reply-To: <55EC6453.3000601@broadcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 09/06/2015 06:05 PM, Arend van Spriel wrote: > 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? Another remark on this. Do you propose to add a vendor Kconfig level as well? Regards, Arend > 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 >