Return-path: Received: from mail.atheros.com ([12.36.123.2]:23554 "EHLO mail.atheros.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751281Ab0CBIaS (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Mar 2010 03:30:18 -0500 Received: from mail.atheros.com ([10.10.20.108]) by sidewinder.atheros.com for ; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:30:18 -0800 From: Sujith MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: <19340.53523.373634.82156@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 14:19:23 +0530 To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" CC: "linville@tuxdriver.com" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] ath9k: Remove common module In-Reply-To: <43e72e891003020021l49191ceaye56c204e74a3c004@mail.gmail.com> References: <19339.35506.86567.739868@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <43e72e891003011524m4d14bb2ai550f5e07e5a11aa4@mail.gmail.com> <19340.37231.983326.296054@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <43e72e891003012338q7da06ac0o7ff6ed6398626dcb@mail.gmail.com> <19340.51272.987517.174933@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <43e72e891003012359jfb59df8t4c386a427b3c99a1@mail.gmail.com> <19340.52259.880731.243673@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <43e72e891003020021l49191ceaye56c204e74a3c004@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > You would be more familiar with the commonality between ath9k and > ath9k_htc at this point. Even though the two drivers are separate > right now, say we did remove the ath9k virtual wiphy, is there a set > of mac80211 callbacks we can start sharing? I don't think so, all of the callbacks involve issuing WMI commands to the target, trying to workaround this would involve a lot of code churn. Sujith