On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 07:36:41PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > On 07/21/2017 10:08 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 08:18:13PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Why do you need a staging driver to have changes in the wireless tree? > > Staging drivers should be self-contained and not rely on anything > > outside of it in order to work properly (i.e. don't add code to the real > > kernel only for a staging driver.) > > Greg, > > To add the new driver to staging without any other changes, I will need to > duplicate a lot of code. That is no problem, other than the duplicate entry > points that will show up in a makeallyes configuration. If that is what you > want, then that is what I will do.
What do you mean by "duplicate entry points"? Duplicate global symbols? Something else? confused, greg k-h
