To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>, Greg KH <gregkh@linux.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
        Birming Chiu <birming@realtek.com>, Pkshih <pkshih@realtek.com>
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Subject: New Realtek driver
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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 20:18:13 -0500
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Kalle and Greg,

Once again I find myself in the awkward position of needing to submit code to 
two different trees, i.e. wireless and staging.

The code in question concerns a new Realtek device, the RTL8822BE. The device is 
already shipping, and Realtek would like it to be available in kernel 3.14. As 
it consists of ~120,000 new lines of code, I have assured Realtek that 3.14 
would not be possible, at least in the wireless tree. What I plan to do is 
submit the changes in the existing drivers through wireless, and the three 
totally new drivers through staging. My expectation is that this code would live 
for a relatively short time there, but going that route would give time for the 
code to be reviewed properly, but still be available in a kernel driver. All of 
the new code will be available in a GitHub repo maintained by Realtek for those 
users whose distros do not configure anything in staging.

For my part, I will push the wireless tree material as fast as I can and hope 
there is time available near the end of the 4.13-rcX sequence for the material 
to reach 4.14-rc1.

Thanks for your understanding and help.

Larry