Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]> writes: > ssb bus can be found on various "host" devices like PCI/PCMCIA/SDIO. > Every ssb bus contains cores AKA devices. > The main idea is to have ssb driver scan/initialize bus and register > ready-to-use cores. This way ssb drivers can operate on a single core > mostly ignoring underlaying details. > > For some reason PCMCIA support was split between ssb and b43. We got > PCMCIA host device probing in b43, then bus scanning in ssb and then > wireless core probing back in b43. The truth is it's very unlikely we > will ever see PCMCIA ssb device with no 802.11 core but I still don't > see any advantage of the current architecture. > > With proposed change we get the same functionality with a simpler > architecture, less Kconfig symbols, one killed EXPORT and hopefully > cleaner b43. Since b43 supports both: ssb & bcma I prefer to keep ssb > specific code in ssb driver. > > This mostly moves code from b43's pcmcia.c to bridge_pcmcia_80211.c. We > already use similar solution with b43_pci_bridge.c. I didn't use "b43" > in name of this new file as in theory any driver can operate on wireless > core. > > Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]>
Applied manually to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks. -- Kalle Valo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
