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RE: [PATCH 2/4] staging: brcm80211: brcmfmac: remove PCI SDIO controller binding

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I'm not familiar with the fullmac code so I am getting someone from fullmac team to answer...hang on just a little.

In the meantime Mike, does the driver still work with all your patches?

Thanks
Brett

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 2:11 PM
> To: Mike Rapoport
> Cc: Greg KH; Brett Rudley; Henry Ptasinski; Dowan Kim; linux-
> wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] staging: brcm80211: brcmfmac: remove PCI SDIO
> controller binding
> 
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:00:16AM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 09:58:46AM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > >> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <mike.rapoport@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >> ---
> > >>  drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmfmac/bcmsdh_linux.c |  229 ----------
> -----------
> > >>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 229 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > Wait, is this really ok code to be removing from the driver?
> > >
> > > Brett and Henry, any objections to this?
> > >
> > > Mike, why do you think this is ok to remove?  Is it because no one is
> > > ever calling this even for both types of config for this driver?
> >
> > There's a lot of code in the brcmfmac part of the driver that tries to
> > re-implement SDIO stack. In particular, the code removed by this patch
> > registers a pci_driver for SDIO controller and then the brcmfmac
> > driver accesses the WiFi device attached to that SDIO controller by
> > means of custom re-implementation of SDHC.
> 
> Ok, so even with this patch, it will still work properly in the SDIO
> mode?
> 
> Have you been able to test this?
> 
> Brett, Henry, I would like to get your ack on this before applying it.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h


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