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On 21 November 2010 13:53, Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> wrote:

>> * decoupling the hardware twiddling stuff from OS/802.11 stack
>> specific stuff is helpful;
>
> ath9k_hw mostly is 802.11 stack independent except band enum usage,
> and maybe one other variable we stuffed in there to help clean out
> code more.

Yup, I saw that.


> Agreed. Thanks for your feedback.

No worries. You'll get more feedback when I come to actually trying to
port the AR9003 hwops code over.
As I said, I'll have a bit of a practice run soon with some of the
kite/merlin calibration stuff that isn't yet in FreeBSD.


Adrian
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