W dniu 14 września 2011 10:42 użytkownik Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> napisał: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 10:23:47PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote: >> W dniu 13 września 2011 19:44 użytkownik John W. Linville >> <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> napisał: >> > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:27:20PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote: >> > >> >> The problem is that brcmsmac duplicates code present in the bcma >> >> driver. It doesn't use bcma bus architecture. >> >> >> >> The real solution is to add bcma driver support in brcmsmac and ssb >> >> driver support in brcmfmac. Then you can always use bcma and: >> >> 1) If b43 will load and detect unsupported PHY, it will release the BCMA's core >> >> 2) brcmsmac will be loaded to let it support the core >> > >> > We are going to have to find a way to get brcmsmac into the >> > wireless-next tree to make it feasible for the Broadcom guys to get >> > bcma support into that driver. Do you agree? >> > >> > We could move it under the drivers/net/wireless tree. Or, maybe I >> > could negotiate with Greg to keep it under the drivers/staging tree >> > but to let me manage it under wireless-next. Or...? Do you have >> > any thoughts on this? >> >> I'll be posting some bcma patches that will allow brcmsmac being >> converted to bcma support. Currently we don't export few trivial ops >> in bcma, that are needed by b43/brcmsmac. >> >> Could we ask Greg after that, to merge wireless-next into staging? > > No. > >> That would provide Broadcom guys all the symbols they need. > > Yes, or they can wait for the next merge window as that will make things > easier for everyone involved, right? > >> AFAIK git is clever enough to allow Linux easily merge both: Greg's >> tree and wireless-next tree. Without conflicts coming from >> "duplicated" patches. > > It is, but I really don't want to be dragging around the wireless-next > tree in staging-next, just like I doubt John would want to drag > staging-next into wireless-next. You're right, it wasn't a good idea. Arend: I've just sent patches to John giving you symbols needed by LCN code. If there is something more missing, I didn't notice it yet, feel free to report. AFAICS you should be able now to convert brcmsmac to use bcma, if you wish to. -- Rafał -- 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
