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Re: [PATCH 1/9] ath5k: AHB port. Use generic DMA instead of PCI API.

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On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Wojciech Dubowik <dubowoj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> General comments for AHB bus support in ath5k:
>>  - most of the original patches came from Felix Fetikau. I have used them as a reference and ported to current git tree
>>  - tried with access point functionality with WPA2 and without encryption
>>  - tested on AR5312 for AHB and AR5414 and AR5212 for PCI
>>  - compat wireless from openwrt was used for testing these patches
>>  - last two patches have to be applied together because otherwise hardware will crash on reset if
>>  only number 9 is committed. I have kept them separated for better visibility
>
> Nice! You want to send these patches in a series as you have but use a
> cover letter to introduce and explain the series.

akpm would disagree :)

> This patch's commit
> log should only note that this uses the Generic DMA APIs in order to
> later support AHB. You can get yourself a cover letter using git
> format-patch --cover-letter. For more elaborate examples check out:

ACK, the comments at the top should be in a cover letter or after
the "---", or rewritten to be worth storing in the kernel history.

Could you also cc ath5k-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?

Thanks for doing this work!

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Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com
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