Re: GSOC Project: Merge code from two Realtek Wifi Drivers

[Sugam Srivastava <srivastavasugam99%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hi,
I have completed my draft proposal to my best, could you please have a
look at it and provide feedback.
Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K1BFeZUstc4vjvpbGWo7UUm6SkSik6QxMdm4bxHMmtQ/edit?usp=sharing
Regards,
Sugam

On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 3:07 AM Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 10:38:23AM +0530, Sugam Srivastava wrote:
> > To whomever it may concern,
> > I have completed all the tutorials and have started working on my
> > proposal for the project. I have a couple of questions regarding the
> > project:
> > 1. In which file would be put the merged code for the two drivers
>
> We typically split it up like:
>
>  - sys/dev/ic/if_rt.... (where ... could be some chipset number typical
>    for this realtek family). There would be .c and .h files.
>  - sys/dev/pci/if_rtwn.c the pci specific parts of the driver, using the
>    code from dev/ic as a "library"
>  - sys/dev/usb/if_urtwn.c the usb specific parts
>
> > 2. I also have trouble deciding the deliverables for the evaluation. I
> > am thinking of dividing code into 2 parts and making each of them the
> > deliverables for the evaluations.
>
> In this case I don't think this makes much sense, as you have to understand
> the common parts first, so you can not finish one driver and then do the
> other.
>
>
> Martin