From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 09:49:10 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 2/9] b43: add bus device abstraction layer In-Reply-To: References: <1305677203-16660-1-git-send-email-zajec5@gmail.com> <1305677203-16660-2-git-send-email-zajec5@gmail.com> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Julian Calaby Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, "John W. Linville" , b43-dev@lists.infradead.org W dniu 18 maja 2011 09:21 u?ytkownik Julian Calaby napisa?: > 2011/5/18 Rafa? Mi?ecki : >> W dniu 18 maja 2011 02:28 u?ytkownik Julian Calaby >> napisa?: >>> Rafa?, >>> >>> A quick question: >>> >>> 2011/5/18 Rafa? Mi?ecki : >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Rafa? Mi?ecki >>>> --- >>>> ?drivers/net/wireless/b43/Makefile | ? ?1 + >>>> ?drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.h ? ?| ? ?4 +++- >>>> ?drivers/net/wireless/b43/bus.c ? ?| ? 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>> >>> Would it make more sense to have this be called ssb.c as it contains >>> all the ssb specific functions, >> >> It's only ssb specific for now. It will contain BCMA code later. >> >> >>> that way you can then have an brcma.c >>> file to contain the functions specific to that bus? >> >> I'll put BCMA specific code in bus.c. >> Right now bus.c contains 100 LOC* and I believe its SSB part is >> complete. All the ops functions are one liners. It's so small and >> simple file I don't see sense to splitting it and having more mess in >> list of files instead. > > As I see it, having two sets of mostly identical ?wrapper functions in > a file seems incorrect to me. Especially as once the abstraction is > complete it would technically be correct to build b43 without SSB > support - it's much cleaner to not compile a file than have a massive > #ifdef block in a common file. > > Anyway, it's only a minor thing. Massive? It's *one* ifdef for one bus type in this file. >> A one quick question: >> Why didn't you respond in "[RFC][PATCH] b43: add bus abstraction >> layer" on 2011-04-08? Or more recent "[RFC ONLY 2/5] b43: add bus >> device abstraction later" posted on 2011-05-09? > > While I try to read every patch that passes through the linux-wireless > mailing list, I only skim them, and tend to miss some details. The > thing that prompted this comment was the SSB comment at the start of > the SSB specific wrappers - something I probably didn't read the last > two times the patch came up on the list. OK, I ask because it's much easier to discuss such a things before you got 20 patches. That's why I posted very early RFC. -- Rafa?