On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Bruno Randolf <br1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed October 6 2010 11:45:46 Felix Fietkau wrote: >> On 2010-10-06 4:25 AM, Bruno Randolf wrote: >> > On Wed October 6 2010 07:38:34 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> >> This is all being sucked out of common, so can we just share the >> >> filler for the survey between ath5k and ath9k? Note we should split up >> >> hw code and core driver code on the ath module by file. >> > >> > sure, that would be good! noise floor comes from ath5k_hw though, but >> > that can easily be moved to common. >> > >> > there's so much code which could be shared between ath5k and ath9k... >> >> That would need sharing of the channel list and some per-channel data >> though - so it may need some more code reshuffling... > > also - we would need a common way to get ath_common from ieee80211_hw, which > works for both ath5k and ath9k. right now each has it's own structures. so... > i'd say: later... Lets also learn from the iwlwifi issues. The more you share the easier it is to regress older drivers. So I'd love to share but I think I now prefer to be more conservative towards code sharing, share only what we know will not change at all and are 100% confident in, and fork off a driver every now and then so we can maintain stability on the older drivers. Luis -- 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
