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Re: [PATCH 4/7] ath9k: Remove common module

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Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> So you still don't like a common module approach? I guess I can wait
> to see your patch.

I don't know, Luis.
It seems a bit cleaner to me, just ath.ko, ath9k_hw.ko and ath9k.ko

But I don't really care, anyway - maybe we can just dump this series and
use ath9k_common.ko as such.

I'll send patches removing lib.c from ath9k_htc.

> Year I hear you, so there are two things I think we can do in the long
> run to bring in mac80211 helpers together. The first one is to remove
> the ath9k wiphy. The second is to use a threaded ISR and change our
> bottom halves to use a workqueue instead of a tasklet so we can also
> sleep during our work. I think these two things should enable us to
> start sharing some callbacks. But ath9k virtual wiphy seems to provide
> some functionality we don't yet have in mac80211/cfg80211 centrally
> but we could work on that.

My vote is to keep the drivers separate.

Sujith
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