On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 18:01 +0200, Roshanak Rasoli wrote: > Hi experts, > > I have a question about the code that you wrote; > > 1- How does the ath9k announce itself to the mac80211? The ath9k driver handles its own hardware detection via normal kernel probing and matching mechanisms, and you end up in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/pci.c::ath_pci_probe() or ath_ahb_probe() depending on the bus the device uses. From there ath9k calls ieee80211_alloc_hw() which is how ath9k "announces" itself to mac80211. > 2- How can the mac80211 know how to configure the ath9k. The hardware module (ath9k) sends a set of "ops" (struct ieee80211_ops) to mac80211 in the ieee80211_alloc_hw() call that contains callbacks that mac80211 will run when it needs to configure the device. See drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c for the ath9k_ops structure. Dan > Could you please point out to the code. > > Thanks in advance. > -- > 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 -- 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
