Two rtlwifi drivers?

[Oleksij Rempel]

Am 16.10.2017 um 15:07 schrieb Kalle Valo:
> Oleksij Rempel <linux at rempel-privat.de> writes:
> 
>>> 4) As Kalle mentioned, rtlwifi contains many magic numbers, and I 
>>>    plan to fix them after rtl8723de and rtl8821ce. Because the drivers
>>>    are developing, the changes will make us hard to integrate. However,
>>>    I don't have plan to process the magic numbers in the module phydm,
>>>    because the most of BB/RF registers contain many functions. And
>>>    it doesn't have a register name but a bit field name instead.
>>>    Our BB team guys say the use of enumeration or defined name will
>>>    be unreadable, and the name is meaningless for most people.
>>
>> Experience with ath9k driver showed, that development was kind of
>> balanced between two groups, QCA and Community (Other companies,
>> researches, education and so on.). Saying: "you will not understand it
>> any way" is nor really helpful :)
>> Please don't repeat bad experience of Broadcom.
> 
> I agree with Oleksij here, but I want to still point out that there are
> cases when using magic numbers are ok, for example look at
> ar5008_initvals.h from ath9k. So it depends on case by case.

Beside. It is probably offtopic. I assume this initvals related to BB.
Is it possible to force a 802.11n controller to work in 802.11b mode? I
can image, it should be possible by reconfiguring BB. Correct?
-- 
Regards,
Oleksij

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