[PATCH v2] Move brcm80211 to mainline

Henry Ptasinski henryp at broadcom.com
Thu Aug 25 17:59:04 UTC 2011


On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 03:34:52AM -0700, Jonas Gorski wrote:
> > I believe the only SB bus functions that brcmfmac uses are the core reset and
> > disable functions, and only when initializing the chip to download firmware
> > (all other management of the bus is handled by the on-chip CPU).  Is it
> > possible to use those funtions from ssb, without the ssb module trying to
> > manage the bus?
> 
> I haven't really looked at how much the brcmfmac driver uses ssb; I
> just saw s(s)b_* stuff in there and remembered that ssb supports SDIO
> host, so I assumed that there's part of the stack hidden in brcmfmac.
> But if it's only core reset and disable, then what Michael said
> applies ;-)

Yes, I was doubting there would be much benefit, but didn't have a strong
opinion either way.

Thanks for the feedback.

- Henry




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