From: Joshua Roys <Joshua.Roys@gtri.gatech.edu>
To: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>
Cc: wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [WIP v2] rtlwifi: rtl8192su subdriver
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:22:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5000917E.2030801@gtri.gatech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50009024.4080607@gmail.com>
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On 07/13/2012 05:16 PM, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> On 07/09/2012 02:40 PM, Joshua Roys wrote:
>
>> Currently I'm still searching for the hidden/undocumented registers
>> that will
> > allow the rtlwifi driver to drive the *su chips. (The rtlwifi driver
> uses the
> > softmac infrastructure while the current firmware for the *su chips
> really
> > needs a fullmac driver.)
>
> Is there any reason to think a fullmac driver is better than a softmac
> for this chip ?
The firmware provides a very similar set of services as called by
drivers/net/wireless/rndis_wlan.c (albeit through a different calling
interface). This would offload some processing to the device and
potentially allow the host to sleep more. The big reason not to is that
we have rtlwifi/softmac already...
Josh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-13 21:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2012-07-09 12:40 ` [WIP v2] rtlwifi: rtl8192su subdriver Joshua Roys
2012-07-09 13:31 ` Larry Finger
2012-07-13 21:16 ` Xose Vazquez Perez
2012-07-13 21:22 ` Joshua Roys [this message]
2012-05-03 5:08 [WIP] " Joshua Roys
2012-05-08 2:18 ` [WIP v2] " Joshua Roys
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