2009/8/28 Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez<mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Bob Copeland<me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:25:03AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>>> > Well, we also don't use the turbo modes at all and that's where the
>>>> > error is (IIRC) so it shouldn't have any impact. :)
>>>>
>>>> Again, why don't we just remove all that fucking turbo cruft?
>>>
>>> OK with me since no one seems to care enough to implement mac80211
>>> support. I left some of the #defines in place as they are useful
>>> documentation. Approx. 80 of the lines removed are comments.
>>>
>>> text data bss dec hex filename
>>> 136746 480 56 137282 21842 ath5k_old.ko
>>> 134913 480 56 135449 21119 ath5k_new.ko
>>>
>>> Disclaimer: only barely tested.
>>
>> Sexy, thanks!
>>
>> Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>> { AR5K_PHY(14),
>>> - { 0x00000007, 0x00000007, 0x0000000b, 0x0000000b } },
>>> + { 0x00000007, 0x0000000b, 0x0000000b } },
>>
>> Apart from this one initval all other ar5211_ini_mode[] values between
>> 802.11a and 802.11g are the same! Which means we could potentially
>> save (35 lines here * 4 bytes) + (3 entries for AR5K_PHY(14) * 4) =
>> 152 bytes here if we just converge 11a and 11g as just OFDM data for
>> this ini array and remove AR5K_PHY(14) entry and deal with it as a
>> final write. I wonder if AR5K_PHY(14) (0x9838) was a typo for 11a or
>> 11g. I'll try to dig to see what this is, perhaps its not a good idea
>> to move this out and set this later, not sure if this is inline for
>> the rf buffer trigger stuff, I'll poke.
>>
>> All other ini arrays differ in more than 1 line so probably not worth mucking.
>
> OK so upon review here is what I can determine from the above:
>
> AR5211 supports 802.11a and 802.11b, so I suspect the 11g stuff was
> kept there for testing purposes, all of that is actually unused. I say
> we remove 11g stuff for AR5211 as well and save ourselves those bytes.
AR5211 supports draft g (ofdm only) so these values are correct, we
currently don't support draft g on mac80211 but again i don't see why
we should remove all this data, Atheros hasn't removed any of this
from their HAL neither Sam (and MadWiFi/ath both support draft g
-pureg- operation).
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