Return-path: Received: from mail.atheros.com ([12.36.123.2]:23201 "EHLO mail.atheros.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753478Ab0CBHyX (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2010 02:54:23 -0500 Received: from mail.atheros.com ([10.10.20.108]) by sidewinder.atheros.com for ; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:54:23 -0800 From: Sujith MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: <19340.51368.13804.986275@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 13:43:28 +0530 To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" CC: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , "linville@tuxdriver.com" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , Vasanth Thiagarajan , Senthilkumar Balasubramanian Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ath9k_htc: Add ath9k_htc driver In-Reply-To: <43e72e891003012343l655bacc1i57ebe9ca55262878@mail.gmail.com> References: <19336.46643.733555.555640@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20100302002759.GH8069@bombadil.infradead.org> <19340.37002.731064.872605@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <43e72e891003012343l655bacc1i57ebe9ca55262878@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > My modular approach most things were I had hope the AR6003 driver > could also make use of the HTC/HIF framework, they would just register > a ath9k_hif_sdio module, register itself to HTC, and use a separate > hardware family mac80211 core driver for ar6k devices. After review of > the current AR6003 driver architecture later on though I found out > this was not possible, but for future mobile device I do have hope its > possible, just as well as sharing a common ath9k_hw. Ah ok. But yeah, we can make it modular as we add new families/transports. Sujith