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From:   Neal Gompa <neal@gompa.dev>
Date:   Tue, 10 Oct 2023 10:52:56 -0400
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Subject: Re: On brcm80211 maintenance and support
To:     Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>
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On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 8:51 AM Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st> wrote:
>
> On 07/10/2023 00.48, Dmitry Antipov wrote:
> > On 10/6/23 18:34, Hector Martin wrote:
> >
> >> For better or worse, if nobody else does, I'm willing to sign up to
> >> maintain the chips shipping on Apple ARM64 machines (i.e. BCM4378,
> >> BCM4387, BCM4388 - that last one I have bringup for downstream, just got
> >> it done this week) and partially BCM4377 as a bonus (since I have access
> >> to an older Intel Mac with that one, and already did bringup for it,
> >> though my access is sporadic). I'm already playing part time maintainer
> >> anyway (other folks have already sent us patches I'll have to upstream),
> >> and we need this driver to keep working and continue to support new chips.
> >
> > Good news. Would you capable to consider some generic (not hooked to any
> > particular hardware) things like [1] ?
> >
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20230703162458.155942-1-dmantipov@yandex.ru/
> >
>
> Sure, I've done cleanup type stuff myself too.
>

Can we please get this done so that the pile of Broadcom patches can
actually start landing again? It's been frustrating watching patch
submissions be ignored for over a year now. At least add Hector as a
co-maintainer and allow him to land stuff people have been using
outside to get Broadcom Wi-Fi to *work*.

Having stuff sit on the pile and be *ignored* is frustrating for
contributors and users, and massively disincentivizes people from
working in upstream Linux.


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