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From: Luka Gejak To: Greg Kroah-Hartman CC: Dan Carpenter , linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: I need piece of advice regarding rtl8723bs In-Reply-To: <2026031119-retract-obnoxious-0306@gregkh> References: <270B444B-3171-4FEB-A43F-CD33DFFAB518@linux.dev> <0A9F09AD-0082-489F-878A-0899CB6F7413@linux.dev> <2026031119-retract-obnoxious-0306@gregkh> Message-ID: <7EDA54AE-0AC0-43D5-8817-396C35C17266@linux.dev> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_OUT On March 11, 2026 10:27:29 AM GMT+01:00, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 10:13:41AM +0100, Luka Gejak wrote: >> On March 11, 2026 9:03:27 AM GMT+01:00, Dan Carpenter wrote: >> >On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 08:21:47AM +0100, Luka Gejak wrote: >> >> Hi Greg,=20 >> >> Sorry if I am taking a lot of your time or disrupting your workflow, >> >> but I would like a piece of advice regarding staging/rtl8723bs=2E As >> >> you may already know(or you may not), I am working on port of >> >> rtl8723bs to mac80211 architecture=2E I am currently on stage on >> >> getting wifi scans to work(I can bring up interface, and I believe >> >> that I am close to getting scans working as well) so I want to ask >> >> you if you recommend making patches for staging/rtl8723bs as once I >> >> finish the driver and begin process of upstreaming it >> >> staging/rtl8723bs will be irrelevant/deleted(or will it?)=2E >> >> Thank you for your time, Luka Gejak >> > >> >I'm not 100% sure what you are asking=2E=2E=2E >> > >> >If you want to port rtl8723bs to mac80211, that's great=2E We love >> >that=2E When it's ready we can review it=2E >> > >> >Until then people are free to change staging/rtl8723bs if they want to= =2E >> >Your work on the port is future work=2E We can't really be confident = of >> >anything that will happen in the future so we just go on with what we >> >have=2E >> > >> >When your driver is merged and it supports all the hardware that >> >staging/rtl8723bs does then we'll drop the staging driver=2E We never >> >keep two drivers for the same code=2E >> > >> >regards, >> >dan carpenter >>=20 >> Hi Dan, >> Let me clarify, I am decently sure that I can make driver work and I >> want to ask if I should focus of development of that driver or if I >> should take time to contribute to staging/rtl8723bs as well=2E > >That's your decision to make, we can't tell anyone what to spend their >time on :) > >That being said, converting the existing driver, in-place, is probably a >harder task than doing a new one "from scratch", if previous attempts >are any indication=2E But that all depends on the developer involved=2E >So, it's your call=2E > >thanks, > >greg k-h Hi Greg, Thank you for responding, I am actually writing it from scratch, and I bel= ieve I am going to spend my time working on the driver as I believe it will= bring more good in the long run and because I believe I will get it workin= g in near future=2E Sincerely, Luka Gejak