Re: [RFC 0/10] Port of bcm43xx from softmac to mac80211

[Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>]

On Thursday 02 August 2007, Larry Finger wrote:
> Driver bcm43xx is being ported from using SoftMAC to mac80211. For rewiew,
> this series of patches is being prepared; however, the final patch will be
> a single entity so that compilation during bisection will not break.
> 
> The contents of the various pieces are as follows:
> 
>  1. Kconfig, Makefile and the main header file.
>  2. bcm43xx_debugfs.c and bcm43xx_debugfs.h
>  3. bcm43xx_dma.c and bcm43xx_dma.h
>  4. bcm43xx_ilt.c, bcm43xx_ilt.h, bcm43xx_leds.c and bcm43xx_leds.h
>  5. bcm43xx_main.c and bcm43xx_main.h
>  6. bcm43xx_phy.c and bcm43xx_phy.h
>  7. bcm43xx_pio.c and bcm43xx_pio.h
>  8. bcm43xx_radio.c and bcm43xx_radio.h
>  9. bcm43xx_sysfs.c and bcm43xx_sysfs.h
> 10: bcm43xx_xmit.c and bcm43xx_xmit.h
> 
> In general, this port consists of taking the files bcm43xx_phy and 
> bcm43xx_radio from the softmac driver and converting them to work with
> the files from the mac80211 version, which has been back-converted to 
> use V3 firmware.

I don't really want to review 10 huge patches that replace
X by Y. If the code works, fine. Go for it. You get my ACK, if it works
on the hardware where it matters. ;)