Re: [PATCH] wifi: brcmfmac: cfg80211: Use WSEC to set SAE password

[Bagas Sanjaya]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 01:16:20PM +0900, Hector Martin wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2023/12/20 10:44, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Put another way: if we effectively don't have a driver maintainer that
> > can test things, and somebody is willing to step up, shouldn't we take
> > that person up on it?
> 
> Personally, I do think the rPi folks themselves should step up for
> *testing* at the very least. I did point them at our downstream WiFi
> branch at one point during a previous discussion and haven't heard back,
> so either they never tested it, or they did and it didn't break
> anything. If they're shipping popular Linux hardware where the WiFi
> chipset vendor has fully and completely checked out of any upstream
> support, they need to either accept that upstream support will likely
> break at some point (because that's just what happens when nobody cares
> about a given piece of hardware, especially with drivers shared across
> others like this one) or they need to proactively step up and take on,
> minimally, an early testing role themselves.

I'm agree that downstream (e.g. rPi) developers should also participating
in upstream kernel development.

Also Cc: rPi folks to solicit their opinions.

Thanks.

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