netdev - Re: [PATCH v1 6.14] wireless: aic8800: add support for AIC8800 WiFi chipset

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Message-ID: <a99d7c92bcf40614d66228d8de89017ce2b6a580.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 10:27:15 +0200
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>, "he.zhenang"
 <he.zhenang@...mex.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 6.14] wireless: aic8800: add support for AIC8800 WiFi
 chipset

On Tue, 2025-10-21 at 09:03 +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 20/10/2025 11:21, he.zhenang wrote:
> > Add driver support for the AIC8800 WiFi chipset family.
> > 
> > Driver features:
> > - Supports 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) and backward compatible modes
> > - PCIe/USB/SDIO interface support
> > - Hardware encryption offload (WPA3 support)
> > - Enhanced power management for mobile devices
> > - Integrated Bluetooth coexistence (if applicable)
> > 
> v6.14? That's ancient. Work on mainline, please.
> 
> Also, this is absolutely unmanageable huge patch. Please read submitting
> patches document.

Well, it's got 25k lines that are an embedded firmware blob, etc. Not
even sure _staging_ would take that kind of thing as is.

The details you gave for submitting patches are obviously not wrong, but
in a way also miss the point entirely, this driver needs to be
redesigned from scratch before going anywhere near upstream.

johannes