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Re: [PATCH 11/15] wireless: wl1271: introduce platform device support

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On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Roger,
>
> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Roger Quadros <roger.quadros@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> You are already
>> creating a new platform device for wl1271_sdio just to pass platform_data
>
> With the new approach, I can remove this platform device altogether,
> and completely rely on the sdio function device for driver probing (as
> it was before). I just need to add this little support of delivering
> small bits of platform data - the mechanism should be simple and
> generic, and would considerably simplify the driver.
>
>> I think this case is specific to wl1271.
>
> Yes, it is.

wl1251 also has this issue. In fact it's even worse there as it's
missing all SDIO registers and cannot be probed at all.. Those devices
are not plug n play at all.
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