[PATCH v2 00/21] staging: brcm80211: mostly fullmac cleanup patches

Arend van Spriel arend at broadcom.com
Tue Jul 5 21:40:24 UTC 2011


On 07/05/2011 10:38 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> 2011/7/5 Arend van Spriel<arend at broadcom.com>:
>> (...)
>>   staging: brcm80211: removed brcmf_sdioh_interrupt_pending()
>>   staging: brcm80211: removed brcmf_sdioh_reset()
>>   staging: brcm80211: removed brcmf_sdioh_start() and
>>     brcmf_sdioh_stop()
> Arend, can you say something more about what does happen here?
>
> You drop some functions that were empty, but I guess there were here
> for some reason. Did you discover in development process that things
> like start/stop/reset is not needed? Or did you put place for
> something that appeared to be not available on SDIO?
>
> Shouldn't we keep it here and just implement lacking code?

 From what I know this code was intended platform/os independent. In the 
open-source linux driver it was not needed as it relies on 
mmc_core/sdhci/etc. modules. I am more focused on softmac driver so the 
fullmac guys may want to correct my statements made here.

Gr. AvS

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