Re: [PATCH] Merge the Sonics Silicon Backplane subsystem

[Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>]

On Friday 27 July 2007 21:21:20 John W. Linville wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 06:57:20PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > The Sonics Silicon Backplane is a mini-bus used on
> > various Broadcom chips and embedded devices.
> > Devices using the SSB include b44, bcm43xx and various
> > Broadcom based wireless routers.
> > A b44 and bcm43xx port and a SSB based OHCI driver is available.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
> 
> At first glance it looks like there might be some tab/space issues
> in some of the #define blocks toward the end of the patch, although
> those might be intentional.

They are intentional. It's something like this:

#define SSB_REGISTER_XX			0xF88
#define  SSB_VALUE_FOR_REGISTER_XX	0x0001
#define  SSB_MASK_FOR_REGISTER_XX	0xFF00
#define SSB_REGISTER_YY			0xF99
...

> Aside from whatever other style issues that might be identified, I'll
> state that this code has been carried in wireless-dev for months and
> thereby also spent a lot of time in -mm as well as Fedora (rawhide
> and F-7).  The code has proven to be reasonably stable and reliable.

And it's in the OpenWRT trunk since quite some time.

-- 
Greetings Michael.