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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] wifi: brcmfmac: Rename Cypress 89459 to BCM4355
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To:     Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>,
        Arend van Spriel <aspriel@gmail.com>,
        Franky Lin <franky.lin@broadcom.com>,
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From:   Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>
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On 10/02/2023 12.42, Ping-Ke Shih wrote:
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>
>> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2023 10:50 AM
>> To: Arend van Spriel <aspriel@gmail.com>; Franky Lin <franky.lin@broadcom.com>; Hante Meuleman
>> <hante.meuleman@broadcom.com>; Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>; David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>; Eric
>> Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>; Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>; Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Alexander Prutskov <alep@cypress.com>; Chi-Hsien Lin <chi-hsien.lin@cypress.com>; Wright Feng
>> <wright.feng@cypress.com>; Ian Lin <ian.lin@infineon.com>; Soontak Lee <soontak.lee@cypress.com>; Joseph
>> chuang <jiac@cypress.com>; Sven Peter <sven@svenpeter.dev>; Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa@rosenzweig.io>;
>> Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>; Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski@gmail.com>; asahi@lists.linux.dev;
>> linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@broadcom.com; SHA-cyfmac-dev-list@infineon.com;
>> netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>; Arend van Spriel
>> <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
>> Subject: [PATCH v3 1/4] wifi: brcmfmac: Rename Cypress 89459 to BCM4355
>>
>> The commit that introduced support for this chip incorrectly claimed it
>> is a Cypress-specific part, while in actuality it is just a variant of
>> BCM4355 silicon (as evidenced by the chip ID).
>>
>> The relationship between Cypress products and Broadcom products isn't
>> entirely clear but given what little information is available and prior
>> art in the driver, it seems the convention should be that originally
>> Broadcom parts should retain the Broadcom name.
>>
>> Thus, rename the relevant constants and firmware file. Also rename the
>> specific 89459 PCIe ID to BCM43596, which seems to be the original
>> subvariant name for this PCI ID (as defined in the out-of-tree bcmdhd
>> driver).
>>
>> v2: Since Cypress added this part and will presumably be providing
>> its supported firmware, we keep the CYW designation for this device.
>>
>> v3: Drop the RAW device ID in this commit. We don't do this for the
>> other chips since apparently some devices with them exist in the wild,
>> but there is already a 4355 entry with the Broadcom subvendor and WCC
>> firmware vendor, so adding a generic fallback to Cypress seems
>> redundant (no reason why a device would have the raw device ID *and* an
>> explicitly programmed subvendor).
> 
> Do you really want to add changes of v2 and v3 to commit message? Or,
> just want to let reviewers know that? If latter one is what you want,
> move them after s-o-b with delimiter ---

Both; I thought those things were worth mentioning in the commit message
as it stands on its own, and left the version tags in so reviewers know
when they were introduced.

- Hector