Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:14006 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932233AbZKDUe5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:34:57 -0500 Subject: Re: Marvell 88w8385 Support From: Dan Williams To: Holger Schurig Cc: tsr , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, mangoo@wpkg.org In-Reply-To: References: <496C8468.4060101@tsr.se> <20090113145213.GA3623@tuxdriver.com> <1231951654.14909.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> <496E1D6A.10505@gmail.com> <496E3075.6090901@tsr.se> <1231959472.14909.73.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4AF1763C.4010901@tsr.se> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:34:45 -0800 Message-Id: <1257366885.15872.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 16:29 +0100, Holger Schurig wrote: > > From what I can tell there was a patch (referenced here: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=123782768023390&w=2) to fix this > > but I also get indications that this is not the case since there is both > > a USB and miniPCI version of the 88w8385. > > This patch is only for the CF/PCMCIA versions of this those chips. > > There is no if_pci.c yet inside drivers/net/wireless/libertas/, if you > are certain you've a PCI card you're welcome to write one, should be > pretty easy. You can get help by looking at the other if_*.c files for > other physical interfaces. > > > > You write something > > (http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=124334594302472&w=2) that is > > cryptic to me. > > Can you elaborate? What exactly here is cryptic? > > CF/SDIO/GSPO/USB ? > 8015/8385 ? > > > > Also searching the kernel gittree I found > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=drivers/net/wireless/libertas/if_spi.c;h=06a46d7b3d6c2460aecd793d2827033c7c0348f6;hb=cadeba315cc91ae1b57632e61b0cec3a4ed7088d > > which seems to include a driver for the miniPCI libertas 88w8385. > > No, if_spi.c is an indicator that this is for an SPI or GSPI. > > There's to my knowledge no such thing as a PCI-based Marvell 8385 > chip/card/whatever. I'm fairly sure 8385 is only CF and SDIO. Perhaps he means 8335 instead? That was available in both USB and PCI, but it's a softmac part that doesn't have mwl8k support yet afaik. Dan > There is, however, some support for other Marvel 8xxx PCI-based cards > in linux, see drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c.