W dniu 25 sierpnia 2011 23:07 użytkownik Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]> napisał: > 2011/8/25 Jonas Gorski <[email protected]>: >> Hi, >> >> On 25 August 2011 02:20, Henry Ptasinski <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 04:41:54PM -0700, Jonas Gorski wrote: >>>> Hi Henry, >>>> >>>> On 25 August 2011 00:28, Henry Ptasinski <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> > With the latest series of cleanup patches merged in by Greg KH, I'd like >>>> > to >>>> > once again propose moving brcm80211 out of staging and into mainline. >>>> >>>> While I like the Idea of brcm80211 going mainline, I'd like to throw >>>> in the suggestion that brcm80211 should be made a bcma/ssb driver >>>> first (AFACT brcmfmac would use ssb, not bcma, therefore both). >>>> >>>> My reasoning is that it needs to be done eventually anyway, and the >>>> earlier this is done the less work it will be in the long term, also >>>> it would reduce the duplicate code in bcma, ssb, and brcm80211. >>>> >>>> Of course this is just a suggestion, and it's yours and Greg's call >>>> whether you agree with me or not (since it's quite late in the game to >>>> add a new TODO, and I suspect a rather big one). >>> >>> We started converting brcmsmac to bcma, but bcma is evolving rapidly in the >>> wireless-testing tree. Since wireless-testing and staging-next only get in >>> sync during a kernel merge, the version of bcma we have to work with in >>> staging >>> is usually quit outdated. Unless Greg and John want to come up with a >>> process >>> for keeping bcma consistent between their two repos, I don't really see how >>> we >>> can productively use bcma until we cross over. We do intend to switch to >>> using >>> bcma as soon as possible. >> >> Okay, then no objections from me. The keeping in sync is a valid >> reason. I'm looking forward to seeing your bcma patches :-) >> >>> I believe the only SB bus functions that brcmfmac uses are the core reset >>> and >>> disable functions, and only when initializing the chip to download firmware >>> (all other management of the bus is handled by the on-chip CPU). Is it >>> possible to use those funtions from ssb, without the ssb module trying to >>> manage the bus? >> >> I haven't really looked at how much the brcmfmac driver uses ssb; I >> just saw s(s)b_* stuff in there and remembered that ssb supports SDIO >> host, so I assumed that there's part of the stack hidden in brcmfmac. >> But if it's only core reset and disable, then what Michael said >> applies ;-) > > Still, is there any good reason for duplicating that code?
Also what about embedded devices? Shouldn't we have core drivers for them? I mean, to be able to easily choose driver for a given core? Let's say I want to use some ssb-core-based driver for Ethernet port (like gige) but I also want to use brcmsmac fo 80211. Is that possible without brcmsmac using bcma? -- Rafał _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
