On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 9:28 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Hi,
On 18-01-17 13:10, Josh Boyer wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 5:18 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede(a)redhat.com>
>> And I still end up at my original unanswered question:
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>> "All I'm asking from the fedora kernel team is permission
>> to add the driver."
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> I believe you also offered to maintain it, yes?
Yes, if I get to go ahead to add these I will take care of them
100%, which is also why I want to start with just rtl8723bs and
see how that goes.
As said the Fedora kernel team can just comment out the patches
when things break when rebasing to a new rc1, and I will take
care of getting things fixed. Note if things break in a minor
release e.g. going from 4.8.15 to 4.8.16 a heads-up of course
would be appreciated, but I assume that is common sense.
We did this with another out-of-tree patchset a while ago to support
ACPI and UEFI on Aarch64 before that was upstream. The maintainer of
that patchset did a great job and I think it worked well enough. As I
said earlier, I don't have a say in the decision but if similar
efforts are in place for these drivers then it could be successful.
josh