-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/20/2013 02:27 PM, Solomon Peachy wrote: > As part of the cw1200 mainlining effort, I stripped two chunks out > of the cw1200 driver that only had relevance relevance for older > kernels: > > 1) Workaround for a hardware SDIO bug (needed for < 3.2) * Formal > SDIO-level quirk mainlined in 3.2-rc * Absence results in device > hang with 512-byte SDIO transfers. 2) Support for kernels < 2.6.36 > * Driver utilizes the new workqueue API introduced in 2.6.36, > taking advantage of new semantics/features (WQ_HIGHPRI + > WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE) * With older kernels we need a dedicated kthread > > Backports has an implementation of the new workqueue API, but it is > expressed in terms of the old API, which is inadequate for the > cw1200's needs. > > Perhaps it's a lack of sufficient sleep, but I haven't quite > wrapped my head around how the bakports stuff is put together; it's > radically different that compat-wireless, which had nice orderly > patch directories. :) > > Any advice on how I should proceed here? I want to do this the > RightWay, but I don't know what that is yet -- Should I just add > these two patches to the backports tree under > patches/unified-drivers? > > (The code chunks in question are wrapped with LINUX_VERSION_CODE > tests, so they function fine on newer kernels) > > - Solomon > Hi Solomon, We have a documentation for that in the wiki [0]. Just ask if you have any further questions. There are some pending changes regarding the workqueue API changes in the kernel, you should base your work on top of that [1]. Hauke [0]: https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Documentation/backports/hacking [1]: http://www.spinics.net/lists/backports/msg01505.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJR6pt7AAoJEIZ0px9YPRMyTv4P/0cWlLLx0lT3Ocdc1GR0y5R+ CNkOQXJTQPl2ft8yCD5kpuUF2NylknD8GX+wVreDf8BscTauSBC4yw5o3OWp5QAC t3gYYxeBupJvAjbWuJ61JFe5b9wTOM+Vc2cPBFdJoMGCy/iEc7cRkAJDwQMKnMnS N6rEtIvxk+tJjGb6UgagLPDGpwVxu+XCKPIAabWB4M/8oZjz+eGQXm9JqveP6Q2Q KsWJvPeq1CwEVFHeVAiVEF6TlV5sF0h+CivMegjMfGnRWB2ojLnNDnBv9DT0pVJz dsPXgHvoKJNpU5oMguFWuHmvUaljnjBxXvXhHIzIYsmEMeRVIprPaQKVk9B9wSER W/GWkQOgKlhpNYgFe++6Ktt3dVb2omm4mLfeWgGK8RoWXpH1skp9IMyzt22vrRON n2ASW1E7gcnAYWhEl/WjGWSyMdqfV0LZF2forJhsBA9GhcdoEqdedMQWzh7lRHOb OGgj5zhihWJiw69IiBUNpmtIGTw9YYRLFbPUxNf/WBwlcSZFpguXyAfB6G7x5UFw 90PSxg0nTsoT6DWQDSzORLucAm571sHFkwpyj6gBO+qEcZnk8XKx8KjfvM9AQZIl 4QL1wDZK5JrWTkpPSUgJTINUfrOVZTDZAMKsbOdWpeFEuu/fsghA5dyA45nPZgGw ZRhflmc8ulHQ46KryJiC =rPy0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
