Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com> writes: > On 18/11/15 11:19, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: >> On 11/18/2015 03:45 PM, Kalle Valo wrote: >>> Part of reorganising wireless drivers directory and Kconfig. Note that I >>> had to >>> edit Makefiles from subdirectories to use the new location. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kv...@codeaurora.org> >>> --- >> >> I would prefer to remove the brcm80211 directory in this process and create: >> drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcmfmac >> drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcmsmac >> drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcmutil >> drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/include >> >> This way we have one directory less. > > Would not that make keeping track of the previous and future history > harder for people contributing to these drivers? I could imagine that > for Arend and other Broadcom engineers, dealing with a simple level move > would be manageable, but having to account for a different directory > hierarchy could be a pain. > > What is the impact on compat-wireless after/before these changes by the way?
It's called backports nowadays :) But I understood that as long as we have a separate kconfig option for the vendor directories (CONFIG_WLAN_VENDOR_*) it should be ok. For 4.3 we didn't have that for realtek directory and that caused pain for backports. -- Kalle Valo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
