Return-path: Received: from static-ip-62-75-166-246.inaddr.intergenia.de ([62.75.166.246]:37542 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754711AbXHBQHX (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 12:07:23 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: Larry Finger Subject: Re: [RFC 0/10] Port of bcm43xx from softmac to mac80211 Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 18:07:20 +0200 Cc: Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org References: <46b1fde0.b+weBDN75J0SPe2a%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> In-Reply-To: <46b1fde0.b+weBDN75J0SPe2a%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200708021807.20649.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thursday 02 August 2007, Larry Finger wrote: > Driver bcm43xx is being ported from using SoftMAC to mac80211. For rewiew, > this series of patches is being prepared; however, the final patch will be > a single entity so that compilation during bisection will not break. > > The contents of the various pieces are as follows: > > 1. Kconfig, Makefile and the main header file. > 2. bcm43xx_debugfs.c and bcm43xx_debugfs.h > 3. bcm43xx_dma.c and bcm43xx_dma.h > 4. bcm43xx_ilt.c, bcm43xx_ilt.h, bcm43xx_leds.c and bcm43xx_leds.h > 5. bcm43xx_main.c and bcm43xx_main.h > 6. bcm43xx_phy.c and bcm43xx_phy.h > 7. bcm43xx_pio.c and bcm43xx_pio.h > 8. bcm43xx_radio.c and bcm43xx_radio.h > 9. bcm43xx_sysfs.c and bcm43xx_sysfs.h > 10: bcm43xx_xmit.c and bcm43xx_xmit.h > > In general, this port consists of taking the files bcm43xx_phy and > bcm43xx_radio from the softmac driver and converting them to work with > the files from the mac80211 version, which has been back-converted to > use V3 firmware. I don't really want to review 10 huge patches that replace X by Y. If the code works, fine. Go for it. You get my ACK, if it works on the hardware where it matters. ;)