Re: [PATCH] Marvell CF8381

[Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 13:27 +0100, Holger Schurig wrote:
> > -       priv->regioncode = le16_to_cpu(cmd.regioncode) & 0xFF;
> > +       priv->regioncode = (le16_to_cpu(cmd.regioncode) & 
> 0xFF00) >> 8;
> 
> Hmm, the change that this breaks 8385 is quite high, maybe 100
> percent.

The cf8385-5.0.16.p0-26306 (gumstix) driver has:

	Adapter->RegionCode = wlan_le16_to_cpu(hwspec->RegionCode) >> 8;

So it appears there's precedent for this even on 8385 parts.

Dan

> It could simply be the case that your firmware returns the value
> in a different order than mine. So we either need to test for the
> firmware version or for the hardware before getting the value via
> one or the other method.
> 
> Maybe it's worthwhile to create some hw_is_8381() function and 
> then do the things that need to be differently based on it's 
> return value?
> 
> 
> 
> The documentation for CMG_GET_HW_SPEC that I have says
> 
> RegionCode   UINT16    Set to 0
> 
> so I see no indicator that we have two 8 bit values here. But
> we've seen bugs in docs before :-)
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