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Re: [PATCH 00/38] wireless: ra6w driver for Renesas IEEE 802.11ax devices

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Hi!

On Thu, 2025-04-17 at 16:51 +0300, Alexander Savchenko wrote:
> Renesas Electronics Corporation publishes to the opensource new
> wireless driver for an own 802.11 chipset family - RA6Wx.

I guess I'll ask the same questions I just asked the other recent new
driver submission:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/45b74f9f0831294e783a019cd6a1437fdad4eb6a.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/


You're not adding a MAINTAINERS entry, what are your plans to actually
support this?

Also, how much do you actually plan on being part of the community?
Reviewing others' code, etc.?

See also
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/21896d2788b8bc6c7fcb534cd43e75671a57f494.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

> (including the firmware binaries).

Those should probably go to linux-firmware.git.

> The RFC is divided into separate patches on a per-file basis to simplify
> the review process.

The bot reported some issues anyway:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20250417135236.52410-39-oleksandr.savchenko.dn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
FYI.


So dunno what to do with this - I'm not going to review this. I suggest
you build some street cred first, review other patches, show that you're
around and care about the infrastructure you're building on.

johannes





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