Return-path: Received: from mail-oi0-f49.google.com ([209.85.218.49]:32885 "EHLO mail-oi0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759017AbcIMPFu (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Sep 2016 11:05:50 -0400 Received: by mail-oi0-f49.google.com with SMTP id y2so386755338oie.0 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2016 08:05:50 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Support of rtl8723bs To: Hanno Zulla , Jes Sorensen , Bastien Nocera References: <688574b6-1141-f408-d397-535f1f69999e@hanno.de> <1473683031.2930.3.camel@hadess.net> <5b920339-abcd-0fc4-f054-039155c531a0@lwfinger.net> <1473695458.6389.3.camel@hadess.net> <4efa3f1a-a91c-7b19-43e3-508cbbd4676e@hanno.de> Cc: anthony.wong@canonical.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org From: Larry Finger Message-ID: (sfid-20160913_170607_770187_E6AB3A6E) Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 10:05:47 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4efa3f1a-a91c-7b19-43e3-508cbbd4676e@hanno.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 09/13/2016 02:47 AM, Hanno Zulla wrote: > Hi, > >> The issues I am aware of is to start out changing the register access >> macros into function pointers and stick them all into the fileops >> structure. Provide a set of SDIO ones to match the USB ones. Then you >> will need some code to detect the device, as that part will obviously be >> different from the USB device detection. >> >> I know there are a few issues to look out for in the hw register init >> files to look out for too, that does some special casing for SDIO, but >> that should be limited. I am happy to point someone in the right >> direction on that when they get to that. > > I had a brief look into the sources of other drivers implementing SDIO, > but not being a kernel-dev, this is out of my league. > > If you decide to reprioritize your TODO-List in favour of adding SDIO > sooner, I'll be gladly testing this for you on my hardware (and buy you > a beer). I received a CherryTrail z8300 device yesterday with RTL8723BS wifi and BT. I have started making the changes that Jes suggested. Once I get something running, I will post patches here for review, and I will also make them available in Bastien's repo. I make no promises on when anything will be available. Larry