Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757300Ab0GNPOR (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:14:17 -0400 Received: from nbd.name ([88.198.39.176]:36941 "EHLO ds10.nbd.name" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755721Ab0GNPOQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:14:16 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1759 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:14:15 EDT Message-ID: <4C3DCD5C.1080705@openwrt.org> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:44:44 +0200 From: Felix Fietkau User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100512 Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "John W. Linville" CC: Ivo Van Doorn , Christoph Egger , Gertjan van Wingerde , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Helmut Schaa , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, users@rt2x00.serialmonkey.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vamos-dev@i4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de, Luis Correia Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] Removing dead RT2800PCI_SOC References: <29013fb6eab9e95e95d61df894797d2455dfa10c.1279110894.git.siccegge@cs.fau.de> <20100714131527.GB2352@tuxdriver.com> In-Reply-To: <20100714131527.GB2352@tuxdriver.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1693 Lines: 37 On 2010-07-14 3:15 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 02:52:14PM +0200, Ivo Van Doorn wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Luis Correia wrote: >> > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 13:39, Christoph Egger wrote: >> >> While RT2800PCI_SOC exists in Kconfig, it depends on either >> >> RALINK_RT288X or RALINK_RT305X which are both not available in Kconfig >> >> so all Code depending on that can't ever be selected and, if there's >> >> no plan to add these options, should be cleaned up >> >> >> >> Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger >> > >> > NAK, >> > >> > this is not dead code, it is needed for the Ralink System-on-Chip >> > Platform devices. >> > >> > While I can't fix Kconfig errors and the current KConfig file may be >> > wrong, this code cannot and will not be deleted. >> >> When the config option was introduced, the config options RALINK_RT288X and >> RALINK_RT305X were supposed to be merged as well soon after by somebody (Felix?) >> >> But since testing is done on SoC boards by Helmut and Felix, I assume the code >> isn't dead but actually in use. > > Perhaps Helmut and Felix can send us the missing code? The missing code is a MIPS platform port, which is currently being maintained in OpenWrt, but is not ready for upstream submission yet. I'm not working on this code at the moment, but I think it will be submitted once it's ready. - Felix -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/