* Does anybody know what acx stand for? @ 2012-03-08 6:39 Yingang Fu 2012-03-08 11:17 ` Julian Calaby 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Yingang Fu @ 2012-03-08 6:39 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-wireless hi, all Does anybody know what acx stand for? The prefix often used in acx.c Thanks Yingang ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: Does anybody know what acx stand for? 2012-03-08 6:39 Does anybody know what acx stand for? Yingang Fu @ 2012-03-08 11:17 ` Julian Calaby 2012-03-08 12:07 ` Luciano Coelho 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Julian Calaby @ 2012-03-08 11:17 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Yingang Fu; +Cc: linux-wireless Hi, On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 17:39, Yingang Fu <yingang.fu@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, all > > Does anybody know what acx stand for? The prefix often used in acx.c I believe that it's part of a code name for TI wireless chips or some part of them. IIRC the old TI 802.11bg PCI cards were known as ACX111 cards and the newer wl12xx cards also use these initials to identify part of the communications protocol used to talk to the chips. Thanks, -- Julian Calaby Email: julian.calaby@gmail.com Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/ .Plan: http://sites.google.com/site/juliancalaby/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: Does anybody know what acx stand for? 2012-03-08 11:17 ` Julian Calaby @ 2012-03-08 12:07 ` Luciano Coelho 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Luciano Coelho @ 2012-03-08 12:07 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Julian Calaby; +Cc: Yingang Fu, linux-wireless On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 22:17 +1100, Julian Calaby wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 17:39, Yingang Fu <yingang.fu@gmail.com> wrote: > > hi, all > > > > Does anybody know what acx stand for? The prefix often used in acx.c > > I believe that it's part of a code name for TI wireless chips or some > part of them. > > IIRC the old TI 802.11bg PCI cards were known as ACX111 cards and the > newer wl12xx cards also use these initials to identify part of the > communications protocol used to talk to the chips. Yes, this is correct. The naming ACX is legacy from the old drivers and, even though nowadays there is hardly if anything in common, the name remains. In practice, the "ACX commands" in the wl12xx driver is mostly about firmware configuration, while the "CMD commands" are mostly about actions. This is not so clearcut though. -- Cheers, Luca. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
end of thread, other threads:[~2012-03-08 12:14 UTC | newest] Thread overview: 3+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed -- links below jump to the message on this page -- 2012-03-08 6:39 Does anybody know what acx stand for? Yingang Fu 2012-03-08 11:17 ` Julian Calaby 2012-03-08 12:07 ` Luciano Coelho
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox