From: "Franky Lin" <frankyl@broadcom.com>
To: gregkh@suse.de
Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 17/19] staging: brcm80211: clarified fullmac io and event codes
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:07:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1316736476-23725-18-git-send-email-frankyl@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1316736476-23725-1-git-send-email-frankyl@broadcom.com>
From: Roland Vossen <rvossen@broadcom.com>
Added comments to make code more readable.
Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Reviewed-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Franky Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
---
drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd.h | 4 ++++
drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_cdc.c | 5 +++++
drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c | 2 ++
3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd.h b/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd.h
index 7ca9172..7ab45d9 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd.h
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@
#define BRCMF_C_IOCTL_MEDLEN 1536 /* "med" ioctl buffer required */
#define BRCMF_C_IOCTL_MAXLEN 8192
+/*******************************************************************************
+ * IO codes that are interpreted by dongle firmware
+ ******************************************************************************/
#define BRCMF_C_UP 2
#define BRCMF_C_SET_PROMISC 10
#define BRCMF_C_GET_RATE 12
@@ -171,6 +174,7 @@ struct dngl_stats {
unsigned long multicast; /* multicast packets received */
};
+/* event codes sent by the dongle to this driver */
#define BRCMF_E_SET_SSID 0
#define BRCMF_E_JOIN 1
#define BRCMF_E_START 2
diff --git a/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_cdc.c b/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_cdc.c
index 91b4d3c..4c171a3 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_cdc.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_cdc.c
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@
* CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
*/
+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Communicates with the dongle by using Broadcom specific ioctl codes.
+ * For certain ioctl codes, the dongle interprets string data from the host.
+ ******************************************************************************/
+
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/netdevice.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
diff --git a/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c b/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c
index d0ae2b6..45c9e78 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
* CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
*/
+/* Toplevel file. Relies on dhd_linux.c to send ioctls to the dongle. */
+
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/if_arp.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
--
1.7.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-23 0:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-23 0:07 [PATCH v2 00/19] staging: brcm80211: 7th reaction for mainline patch #2 Franky Lin
2011-09-23 0:07 ` [PATCH v2 01/19] staging: brcm80211: sparse endianness warnings on dongle events Franky Lin
2011-09-23 0:07 ` [PATCH v2 02/19] staging: brcm80211: various fulmac sparse endianness fixes Franky Lin
2011-09-23 0:07 ` [PATCH v2 03/19] staging: brcm80211: sparse endianness warnings for struct brcmf_proto_cdc_ioctl Franky Lin
2011-09-23 0:07 ` [PATCH v2 04/19] staging: brcm80211: sparse endianness warnings for struct sdpcm_shared Franky Lin
2011-09-23 0:07 ` [PATCH v2 05/19] staging: brcm80211: more fullmac sparse endianness scan related changes Franky Lin
2011-09-23 0:07 ` [PATCH v2 06/19] staging: brcm80211: remove unconditional code blocks from brcmfmac Franky Lin
2011-09-23 0:07 ` [PATCH v2 07/19] staging: brcm80211: remove event handler thread from fullmac Franky Lin
2011-09-23 0:07 ` [PATCH v2 08/19] staging: brcm80211: remove fullmac module_param brcmf_dongle_memsize Franky Lin
2011-09-23 0:07 ` [PATCH v2 09/19] staging: brcm80211: remove fullmac module_param brcmf_sdiod_drive_strength Franky Lin
2011-09-23 0:07 ` [PATCH v2 10/19] staging: brcm80211: remove fullmac module_param for watchdog Franky Lin
2011-09-23 0:07 ` [PATCH v2 11/19] staging: brcm80211: remove fullmac module_param brcmf_idletime Franky Lin
2011-09-23 0:07 ` [PATCH v2 12/19] staging: brcm80211: remove global variables for data frame boundary Franky Lin
2011-09-23 0:07 ` [PATCH v2 13/19] staging: brcm80211: removed two fullmac sparse spinlock warnings Franky Lin
2011-09-23 0:07 ` [PATCH v2 14/19] staging: brcm80211: added endianness check flag to fullmac Makefile Franky Lin
2011-09-23 0:07 ` [PATCH v2 15/19] staging: brcm80211: removed likely/unlikely calls Franky Lin
2011-09-23 0:07 ` [PATCH v2 16/19] staging: brcm80211: removed log after kzalloc()/kmalloc() failure Franky Lin
2011-09-23 0:07 ` Franky Lin [this message]
2011-09-23 0:07 ` [PATCH v2 18/19] staging: brcm80211: consistent naming of struct net_device *ndev Franky Lin
2011-09-23 0:07 ` [PATCH v2 19/19] staging: brcm80211: simplified internal ioctl function once more Franky Lin
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