[PATCH 00/10 V3] rtlwifi: Various clean-ups for the hwinfo routines

Larry Finger Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Tue Jul 5 15:08:05 UTC 2016


The rtlwifi family of drivers use similar routines to extract hardware
information from EFUSE. This set of patches create a common routine to
extract this data, and converts most of the drivers to use this routine.

In addition, a complicated set of if ... else if ... else statements are
present in rtl8723ae. These are converted into switch statements that
are much easier to read.

The changes in the hwinfo routines was suggested by Arnd Bergmann.

All of this material is intended for kernel 4.8.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
---
V2 - Applied changes suggested by Joe Perches
     Fixed a bug found after V1 was submitted
     These patches require ("rtlwifi: Add missing newlines to RT_TRACE calls")
	submitted by Joe Perches.
v3 - Adding missing break statements.

Larry Finger (10):
  rtlwifi: Create common routine to get hardware info
  rtlwifi: rtl8192ce: Convert driver to use common hardware info routine
  rtlwifi: rtl8192cu: Convert driver to use common hardware info routine
  rtlwifi: rtl8188ee: Convert driver to use common hardware info routine
  rtlwifi: rtl8192ee: Convert driver to use common hardware info routine
  rtlwifi: rtl8723ee: Convert driver to use common hardware info routine
  rtlwifi: rtl8723be: Convert driver to use common hardware info routine
  rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: Convert driver to use common hardware info routine
  rtlwifi: rtl8192de: Convert driver to use common hardware info routine
  rtlwifi: rtl8723ae: Clean up the hardware info routine

 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/efuse.c       |  78 ++++++
 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/efuse.h       |   2 +
 .../net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/hw.c    |  76 +-----
 .../net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/hw.c    |  83 +-----
 .../net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/hw.c    |  61 ++---
 .../net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192de/hw.c    |  77 ++----
 .../net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192ee/hw.c    |  73 +-----
 .../net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8723ae/hw.c    | 286 +++++++++------------
 .../net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8723be/hw.c    |  74 +-----
 .../net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8821ae/hw.c    |  84 +-----
 10 files changed, 288 insertions(+), 606 deletions(-)

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