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Subject: wilc1000 driver
From:   David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@egauge.net>
To:     linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Cc:     Ajay Singh <ajay.kathat@microchip.com>, davidm@egauge.net
Date:   Sun, 21 Feb 2021 17:22:52 -0700
Organization: eGauge Systems LLC
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So, I'd like to provide some patches for the wilc driver, but I'm
unclear what the most effective way to go about this is.

The driver in mainline (driver/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000) only
seems to support WILC1000 (not WILC3000) and uses firmware:

  atmel/wilc1000_wifi_firmware-1.bin

whereas the linux-at91 driver (driver/staging/wilc1000) supports both
WILC1000 and WILC3000 and uses firmware

  mch/wilc1000_wifi_firmware.bin

(for WILC1000).

For the hardware I have (embedded system with WILC1000/SPI), the
mainline driver doesn't load, whereas the driver from linux-at91 does
load and work(mostly).

I'd really like to work off of mainline since it's much easier to track
things with a repository that's updated frequently, but it looks to me
like the mainline may be missing a lot of code that's already in
linux-at91.

What am I supposed to do?

  --david