Return-path: Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:44161 "EHLO mail-wy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751920Ab0KUHL0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Nov 2010 02:11:26 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20101118164552.GC2855@kroah.com> Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:11:24 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Challenges with doing hardware bring up with Linux first From: Adrian Chadd To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless , David Miller , "John W. Linville" , Stephen Hemminger , "Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" , Charles Marker , Jouni Malinen , Kevin Hayes , Zhifeng Cai , Don Breslin , Doug Dahlby , Julia Lawall Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 21 November 2010 13:53, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> * decoupling the hardware twiddling stuff from OS/802.11 stack >> specific stuff is helpful; > > ath9k_hw mostly is 802.11 stack independent except band enum usage, > and maybe one other variable we stuffed in there to help clean out > code more. Yup, I saw that. > Agreed. Thanks for your feedback. No worries. You'll get more feedback when I come to actually trying to port the AR9003 hwops code over. As I said, I'll have a bit of a practice run soon with some of the kite/merlin calibration stuff that isn't yet in FreeBSD. Adrian