2010/10/14 Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 06:40:14PM +0200, RafaÅ MiÅecki wrote:
>> W dniu 11 paÅdziernika 2010 18:24 uÅytkownik GÃbor Stefanik
>> <netrolller.3d@xxxxxxxxx> napisaÅ:
>> > Doesn't brcm80211 contain register names for B2055?
>>
>> I've checked brcm80211 and noticed defines in
>> drivers/staging/brcm80211/phy/wlc_phy_radio.h.
>>
>> Whole brcm80211 driver is licensed as:
>> MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL");
>>
>> Mentioned file contains following comments:
>> +/*
>> + * Copyright (c) 2010 Broadcom Corporation
>> + *
>> + * Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
>> + * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
>> + * copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
>>
>> Our b43 driver is licensed as:
>> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>> and I am not sure if permission above is actually GPL-compatible. The
>> best option would be to add defines from wlc_phy_radio.h and include
>> Broadcom's copyright. However comment above wants us to include info
>> about free copying/modifying/using which is not GPL-compatible.
>>
>> Is there any way to solve this issue?
>
> I don't understand, are you just wanting to use the names in the .h file
> for the registers?
Yes. I want to put lines like:
#define RADIO_2056_RX0 (0x6 << 12)
in my radio_2056.h
> If so, why? ÂYou don't want to support the same devices in the b43
> driver that the brcm80211 driver does, do you?
I do. I see many advantages of that plus most of the code is already
here coming from RE.
Finishing N-PHY support in b43 does not need much work plus:
1) We support SSB devices
2) We support older (LP/G-phy) devices
3) We share infrastructure (easier to maintain)
4) We probably could support modes like AP
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RafaÅ
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