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Re: [PATCH V2] ssb: pick PCMCIA host code support from b43 driver

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Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> ssb bus can be found on various "host" devices like PCI/PCMCIA/SDIO.
> Every ssb bus contains cores AKA devices.
> The main idea is to have ssb driver scan/initialize bus and register
> ready-to-use cores. This way ssb drivers can operate on a single core
> mostly ignoring underlaying details.
>
> For some reason PCMCIA support was split between ssb and b43. We got
> PCMCIA host device probing in b43, then bus scanning in ssb and then
> wireless core probing back in b43. The truth is it's very unlikely we
> will ever see PCMCIA ssb device with no 802.11 core but I still don't
> see any advantage of the current architecture.
>
> With proposed change we get the same functionality with a simpler
> architecture, less Kconfig symbols, one killed EXPORT and hopefully
> cleaner b43. Since b43 supports both: ssb & bcma I prefer to keep ssb
> specific code in ssb driver.
>
> This mostly moves code from b43's pcmcia.c to bridge_pcmcia_80211.c. We
> already use similar solution with b43_pci_bridge.c. I didn't use "b43"
> in name of this new file as in theory any driver can operate on wireless
> core.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied manually to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

-- 
Kalle Valo
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