Return-path: Received: from bu3sch.de ([62.75.166.246]:59891 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752805AbZBTTMA (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:12:00 -0500 From: Michael Buesch To: John W Linville Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] b43: Use spatch to convert register accesses Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:10:23 +0100 Cc: bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org References: <200902201854.22114.mb@bu3sch.de> In-Reply-To: <200902201854.22114.mb@bu3sch.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200902202010.23916.mb@bu3sch.de> (sfid-20090220_201206_852130_4D297C89) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Friday 20 February 2009 19:19:15 Michael Buesch wrote: > Some time ago I rejected a bunch of patches that converted the > PHY/radio register accesses to the new API. That was due to the patches > being created manually. This introduces a huge potential to add new bugs. > > However, this is an excellent task for coccinelle/spatch. > So here's a series of patches, to convert the API usage, that were generated > with spatch. This should keep the chances of breaking something as low as possible. > > This reduces the .ko size by about 6 kiB. > > The used semantic patches will be included in the patch headers. > > John, please queue these patches for the next feature release. > Hm, the patches didn't get through linux-wireless. Possibly due to their size. You can find them here: https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2009-February/008696.html https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2009-February/008695.html https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2009-February/008697.html https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2009-February/008698.html https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2009-February/008700.html https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2009-February/008699.html -- Greetings, Michael.