kernel-agent/patches/driver/bes2600

patches/driver/bes2600/

BES2600 WiFi driver patches (drivers/staging/bes2600/*, mainline-bound). Mirrored from marfrit/besser/patches/ on 2026-05-16.

Scope tag: driver:bes2600 (see fleet/ohm.yaml for the consumer). Consumer: ohm (PineTab2, RK3566 + BES2600 SDIO).

Series taxonomy

30 series (15 base + 15 -danctnix siblings). The -danctnix variants exist because vanilla series don't apply on the DanctNIX kernel base (slightly different in-tree state for drivers/staging/bes2600/*). Keep both as separate series until BES2600 lands upstream, then collapse — issue #2 acceptance criterion.

Each series directory contains numbered .patch files plus optionally a 0000-cover-letter.patch for multi-patch series.

Promotion eligibility (per series)

Marked here for the kernel-agent CLI (ka-promote) to pick up. Markus to update as series mature. Default UNSET means "ask before including in a build".

Series	promote_eligible	Notes
debian-copyright-fsf-address	unset	Debian packaging metadata; not kernel-side
drop-dpd-file-paths	unset
drop-dpd-file-paths-danctnix	unset	DanctNIX sibling
drop-orphan-file-io	unset
drop-orphan-file-io-danctnix	unset	DanctNIX sibling
enable-testmode	unset
factory-drop-kernel-write	unset
factory-drop-kernel-write-danctnix	unset	DanctNIX sibling
factory-series	unset
factory-thread-dev	unset
lmac-recover-via-mmc-hw-reset	unset
lmac-recover-via-mmc-hw-reset-danctnix	unset	DanctNIX sibling
pm-detect-firmware-unsupported	unset
pm-detect-firmware-unsupported-danctnix	unset	DanctNIX sibling
pm-gate-on-handshake	unset
pm-state-resync	unset
pm-state-resync-danctnix	unset	DanctNIX sibling
pm-timeout-silence	unset
pm-timeout-silence-danctnix	unset	DanctNIX sibling
pm-wake-consume-state	unset
pm-wake-consume-state-danctnix	unset	DanctNIX sibling
remove-chardev-user-interface	unset	Cross-ref bes_chardev merge regression (besser #17)
scan-defer-backoff-tune	unset
scan-defer-backoff-tune-danctnix	unset	DanctNIX sibling
scan-defer-on-reject	unset
scan-defer-on-reject-danctnix	unset	DanctNIX sibling
staging-prep-series	unset	7-patch cover-letter series; upstream-staging-prep work
staging-prep-series-danctnix	unset	DanctNIX sibling
tx-sdio-dma-oob	unset
tx-sdio-dma-oob-danctnix	unset	DanctNIX sibling

DKMS-to-in-tree transition path

bes2600-dkms (Mobian fork, in marfrit/bes2600-dkms) is the out-of-tree shim that ohm currently uses for the BES2600 wifi+BT. Once these driver/bes2600/ series land in mainline (or at least in DanctNIX's PineTab2 kernel base):

1. ohm's manifest drops the bes2600-dkms package dependency
2. kernel-agent builds the in-tree variant via the series listed here
3. marfrit/bes2600-dkms repo gets archived (kept as history)
4. PineTab2 buyers from then on get bes2600 directly out of the kernel

Track the dropdown in fleet/ohm.yaml (replaces_dkms: bes2600-dkms once the cumulative series is enough to replace it).

Cumulative-patch generation order

The current single-patch cumulative (0001-bes2600-besser-cumulative-series.patch in the existing PKGBUILD) is generated in this order on boltzmann:

A, B, C v3, F, G, D, E, C2, c5.x, c6.x, c7, H

This is NOT alphabetical — C2 follows E rather than coming after C v3. ka-promote MUST honor an explicit series-ordering field when concatenating, not sort by series name. Field name TBD; suggest adding apply_order: to fleet/ohm.yaml (issue #5 will surface this when the cumulative gets regenerated).

References

• Issue: git.reauktion.de/marfrit/kernel-agent/issues/2
• Source repo: git.reauktion.de/marfrit/besser/patches/
• Consumer: ohm (fleet/ohm.yaml)
• Related: bes2600-dkms, linux-pinetab2-danctnix-besser PKGBUILD