Return-path: Received: from 80-190-117-144.ip-home.de ([80.190.117.144]:44954 "EHLO bu3sch.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757919Ab1DAQaU (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2011 12:30:20 -0400 Subject: Re: ChipCommon as independent driver? From: Michael =?ISO-8859-1?Q?B=FCsch?= To: =?UTF-8?Q?Rafa=C5=82_Mi=C5=82ecki?= Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, b43-dev In-Reply-To: (sfid-20110401_182157_154317_212E1805) References: <1301673646.5219.18.camel@maggie> <1301674530.5219.25.camel@maggie> (sfid-20110401_182157_154317_212E1805) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:30:15 +0200 Message-ID: <1301675415.5219.27.camel@maggie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 18:21 +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > W dniu 1 kwietnia 2011 18:15 użytkownik Michael Büsch napisał: > > On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 18:06 +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > >> W dniu 1 kwietnia 2011 18:00 użytkownik Michael Büsch napisał: > >> > On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 16:49 +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > >> >> Do you have idea how we could nicely solve that issue? > >> > > >> > Yeah. Just don't share code between ssb and bcmai. > >> > That's the only clean solution to that mess. > >> > >> Do you want to have core drivers separated as well? Really? Should we > >> have separated pci core? chiccommon core? > > > > Yes. Those "drivers" are a mess full of ssb specific workarounds > > to hardware limitations. > > I really don't understand what you meant in: > > 2011/2/18 Michael Büsch : > > Note that this does not mean that we need to duplicate the MIPS, > > common and probably pci core drivers. A hybrid module can be done, > > if that's desired to avoid code duplication. > > then :| _can_ be done. That doesn't mean it must be done or whether it's a good idea to do so. It certainly is possible to do so, but I don't think it makes a lot of sense. -- Greetings Michael.