[PATCH 0/5] Radio device framework

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 02:34:55PM +0530, akhil.goyal at freescale.com wrote:
> From: Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal at freescale.com>
> 
> RF signal path is integral part of any system that transmits/receives RF
> (radio frequency) signals. In these systems Data is processed/converted
> to IQ samples (digital representation a RF signal) and passed to a RFIC
> (RF PHY) which converts the digital RF signal (IQ samples) to analog and
> transmits over antenna.
> 
> Typically The signal path consists of multiple components: 
> 
> Antenna controller <-> vector signal processors <-> RFIC <-> Antenna
> 
> Each of these components have specific functionalities: 
> 
> 1. Antenna controller: Framing of digital IQ data into protocol specific frames.
> 2. vector signal processors: For conditioning of signal.
> 3. RFIC : converts digital IQ data to analog signal which is transmitted/received on/from Air.
> 
> Also it is desirable to control the complete signal path, for example:
> bringing the complete signal path up/down etc. 
> 
> The radio device framework introduces a way to accommodate the RF signal
> paths.  One signal path is represented as a RF device (rf0, rf1 etc), and
> it can contain multiple components which have their individual vendor
> specific drivers. The framework provides mechanism by which individual
> components can register with RF framework, and the framework will handle the binding
> of individual component devices to a RF device. RF device exports the control
> interfaces to user space, and this user space interface is independent of
> component (vendor specific) drivers.
> 
> This patch set include
> 1. RF Interface: Independent of phy or antenna controller.
> 2. AIC driver: Antenna interface Controller(AIC) of Hetrogenous SOC's
> like BSC9131, BSC9132
> 3. AD9361 driver: RF Phy driver for Analog Devices(ADI) chip(AD9361)
> 4. Device tree bindings for AIC and ADI nodes.
> 5. Device tree changes for BSC9131
> 
> This framework will be re-sent for drivers/ folder after it gets approval for
> staging.

What does this sentance mean?

Why are you submitting this for drivers/staging/?  I do not see a TODO
file that lists what needs to be done to this code to get it out of the
staging tree, that is required.

>  .../devicetree/bindings/rf/ad9361-phy.txt          |   53 +
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rf/fsl-aic.txt   |   47 +
>  arch/powerpc/boot/dts/bsc9131rdb.dts               |    4 +
>  arch/powerpc/boot/dts/bsc9131rdb.dtsi              |   38 +
>  arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/bsc9131si-post.dtsi      |   53 +-
>  arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/pq3-espi-0.dtsi          |    1 +
>  arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/pq3-espi-1.dtsi          |   42 +
>  arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/pq3-gpio-0.dtsi          |    1 +
>  arch/powerpc/boot/dts/fsl/pq3-gpio-1.dtsi          |   42 +
>  drivers/staging/Kconfig                            |    2 +
>  drivers/staging/Makefile                           |    1 +
>  drivers/staging/rf/Kconfig                         |   37 +
>  drivers/staging/rf/Makefile                        |    7 +
>  drivers/staging/rf/controllers/Makefile            |    1 +
>  drivers/staging/rf/controllers/fsl_aic.c           | 1560 ++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/staging/rf/controllers/fsl_aic.h           |  450 +++++
>  drivers/staging/rf/core/Makefile                   |    2 +
>  drivers/staging/rf/core/rf_channel.c               |  207 +++
>  drivers/staging/rf/core/rfdev.c                    | 1263 +++++++++++++
>  drivers/staging/rf/phy/Makefile                    |    2 +
>  drivers/staging/rf/phy/ad9361.c                    | 1918 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/staging/rf/phy/ad9361.h                    |  353 ++++
>  include/linux/rf_channel.h                         |   26 +
>  include/linux/rfdev.h                              |  250 +++
>  include/uapi/linux/rfdev.h                         |  392 ++++

Code in drivers/staging/ has to be self-contained, no extra files in
include/linux/ or anywhere else if at all possible.

So as-is, I can't take this at all, please provide more information as
to why you want me to take this, and then fix it up to be
self-contained.

thanks,

greg k-h