On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 09:48:13AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > But copying an old crappy driver for the sake of "we don't want to > maintain an old crappy driver" is a really bad argument to make?! Is that the argument? Honest question. It's not really clear to me. From https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240930063701.2566520-1-yu-hao.lin@xxxxxxx/: > [1] We had considered adding IW61x to mwifiex, however due to FW > architecture, host command interface and supported features are > significantly different, doing this on mwifiex will carry a lot of > burdens. The effort of making sure no regression is also a huge effort. > We must create a new driver nxpwifi. Subsequent NXP chipsets will be > added and sustained on nxpwifi only. That sounds like you noted one of their reasons ("making sure no regression is also a huge effort"), but they also claim the FW architecture and host command interface is significantly different. I don't recall seeing a proper discussion of that -- although Sascha seems to claim [1] it wasn't that hard for him to support iw61x via mwifiex. Brian [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/Z8rGDTjkwKAVaREL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
