Re: [PATCH 2/4] ath9k: move hw code to its own module

[Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>]

On Thursday 24 September 2009 05:07:00 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> hw code for Atheros 802.11n hardware is commmon between
> different chipsets. This moves this code into a separate
> module, the next expected user of this code will be
> the ath9k_htc module.
> 
> The ath9k/ dir is now selected by ATH9K_HW, an option which
> gets selected by either ath9k or ath9k_htc, but remains
> invisible for user menuconfig configuration. If either
> ath9k or ath9k_htc will be compiled into the kernel
> ath9k_hw will also be compiled in.
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c
> index 7a4de3d..7d167a1 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c
> @@ -33,6 +33,23 @@ static u32 ath9k_hw_ini_fixup(struct ath_hw *ah,
>  static void ath9k_hw_9280_spur_mitigate(struct ath_hw *ah, struct ath9k_channel *chan);
>  static void ath9k_hw_spur_mitigate(struct ath_hw *ah, struct ath9k_channel *chan);
>  
> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Atheros Communications");
[...]
> +
> +static int __init ath9k_init(void)
> +{
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +module_init(ath9k_init);
> +
> +static void __exit ath9k_exit(void)
> +{
> +	return;
> +}
> +module_exit(ath9k_exit);
> +
>  /********************/
>  /* Helper Functions */
>  /********************/

FYI: there's no need for module_init/module_exit stubs.
( http://osdir.com/ml/linux-wireless/2009-04/msg00478.html )