Return-path: Received: from canardo.mork.no ([148.122.252.1]:33641 "EHLO canardo.mork.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753088AbcDCMGN convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Apr 2016 08:06:13 -0400 From: =?utf-8?Q?Bj=C3=B8rn_Mork?= To: David Lin Cc: Julian Calaby , Kalle Valo , Johannes Berg , "linux-wireless\@vger.kernel.org" , Chor Teck Law , "Pete Hsieh" Subject: Re: [PATCH v7] Add new mac80211 driver mwlwifi. References: Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2016 14:05:56 +0200 In-Reply-To: (David Lin's message of "Thu, 17 Mar 2016 02:10:43 +0000") Message-ID: <87lh4uc2xn.fsf@nemi.mork.no> (sfid-20160403_140616_756243_A74EDE04) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: David Lin writes: > We felt some resistance from various people, and get discouraged. Sorry to hear that. I believe this is a misunderstanding. I am convinced that *everyone* who commented on the driver did so with the intention to help getting it merged. I for one would very much like to see this driver in mainline. But for that to happen, you wil have to: 1) create a feature frozen branch for mainline submission 2) respond relatively quickly to comments received, posting new versions of the patch set if necessary The main issue preventing this driver from being merged so far, in my view, is that you have continued to add features between each attemt to get it merged. Adding new features is of course not bad, but you should do that in another branch *until* the initial version is accepted. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help getting this into mainline Bjørn