On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:03:39PM +0200, Daniel Golle wrote: > On embedded systems built-in or PCIe connected WiFi modules usually lack their > own EEPROM and use a mtd partition instead of that. In OpenWrt, this is solved > by requesting a firmware and the handling the resulting hotplug call in > userspace which will then extract the needed file from mtd and supply it to > the driver. > In other cases, PCIe modules might come with an actual EEPROM, but yet some > board-specific hacks are required, such as disabling bands or overriding the > modules MAC address with a board-supplied one. > > The original author of those patches is Gabor Juhos. > According to his remarks, 3 patches related to overriding the whole eeprom and > introducing rt2x00_platform.h were merged into a single patch. > > Daniel Golle (3): > rt2x00: allow overriding eeprom through platform_data > rt2x00: allow disabling bands through platform_data > rt2x00: add platform_data mac address > > drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/Kconfig | 4 ++ > drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/Makefile | 1 + > drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800pci.c | 34 ++++++----- > drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00.h | 10 +++ > drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c | 37 +++++++++++ > drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00eeprom.c | 98 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00lib.h | 16 +++++ > drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00pci.c | 7 +++ > drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00soc.c | 1 + > drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c | 5 ++ > include/linux/rt2x00_platform.h | 23 +++++++ > 11 files changed, 222 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00eeprom.c > create mode 100644 include/linux/rt2x00_platform.h It looks like we need a repost of this series? I'm dropping the old series... -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
