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From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>
Cc: bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/11] b43: implement writing to MMIO shared memory
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:50:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201002271550.19350.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b170af451002270309l1cbc880et100fc4e468386934@mail.gmail.com>

On Saturday 27 February 2010 12:09:30 Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> 2010/2/9 Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>:
> > On Tuesday 09 February 2010 21:04:40 Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> >> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
> >> ---
> >>  drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_common.c |   11 +++++++++++
> >>  drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_common.h |    2 ++
> >>  2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_common.c b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_common.c
> >> index 8f7d7ef..0b0f9df 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_common.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_common.c
> >> @@ -466,3 +466,14 @@ struct b43_c32 b43_cordic(int theta)
> >>
> >>       return ret;
> >>  }
> >> +
> >> +/* http://bcm-v4.sipsolutions.net/802.11/PHY/BmacWriteShm */
> >> +void b43_bmac_write_shm(struct b43_wldev *dev, u32 offset, u16 value)
> >> +{
> >> +     b43_write32(dev, B43_MMIO_SHM_CONTROL, 0x00010000 | (offset >> 2));
> >> +     b43_read32(dev, B43_MMIO_SHM_CONTROL);
> >> +     if (offset & 2)
> >> +             b43_write16(dev, 0x165, value);
> >> +     else
> >> +             b43_write16(dev, B43_MMIO_SHM_DATA, value);
> >> +}
> >
> > I'd like to put a biiiig questionmark on this.
> > We already have SHM access. Your function does exactly the same, except that it
> > accesses the bullshit register h165.
> 
> Yeah, that 0x165 is really crappy. Let's hope it really should be
> 0x166 (B43_MMIO_SHM_DATA_UNALIGNED).
> 
> Do you think we should add dummy-read to b43_shm_control_word as
> BmacWriteShm does? Currently we do not perform that.

That doesn't hurt.
It probably won't help much either, as the whole driver depends on implicit write posting.
But I don't care whether you add it or not.

-- 
Greetings, Michael.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-27 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-09 20:04 [PATCH 01/11] b43: N-PHY: add some registers and structs definitions Rafał Miłecki
2010-02-09 20:04 ` [PATCH 02/11] b43: N-PHY: initialize super switch Rafał Miłecki
2010-02-09 20:04 ` [PATCH 03/11] b43: N-PHY: turn radio on/off (rfkill) Rafał Miłecki
2010-02-09 20:04 ` [PATCH 04/11] b43: N-PHY: update writing channel-specific radio registers Rafał Miłecki
2010-02-09 20:04 ` [PATCH 05/11] b43: N-PHY: update post init of 2055 radio Rafał Miłecki
2010-02-09 20:04 ` [PATCH 06/11] b43: N-PHY: switch to chanspec struct Rafał Miłecki
2010-02-09 20:04 ` [PATCH 07/11] b43: N-PHY: adjust gain table Rafał Miłecki
2010-02-09 20:04 ` [PATCH 08/11] b43: implement writing to MMIO shared memory Rafał Miłecki
2010-02-09 22:59   ` Michael Buesch
2010-02-27 11:09     ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-02-27 14:50       ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2010-02-09 20:04 ` [PATCH 09/11] b43: N-PHY: isloate 2055 radio setup Rafał Miłecki
2010-02-09 23:01   ` Michael Buesch
2010-02-09 20:04 ` [PATCH 10/11] b43: N-PHY: implement chanspec setup Rafał Miłecki
2010-02-09 20:04 ` [PATCH 11/11] b43: N-PHY: switch to chanspec ops Rafał Miłecki
2010-02-09 20:23   ` Larry Finger
2010-02-09 23:02 ` [PATCH 01/11] b43: N-PHY: add some registers and structs definitions Michael Buesch
2010-02-15 19:30   ` John W. Linville
2010-02-19 16:12     ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-02-27 11:12   ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-02-27 14:51     ` Michael Buesch
2010-02-28  1:37       ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-02-28 11:46         ` Michael Buesch
2010-02-19 14:54 ` Johannes Berg
2010-02-19 15:49   ` Larry Finger
2010-02-19 16:23     ` Johannes Berg
2010-02-19 16:40       ` Larry Finger
2010-02-19 17:02         ` Johannes Berg
2010-02-19 17:06           ` Gábor Stefanik
2010-02-19 17:09             ` Johannes Berg
2010-02-19 18:21               ` Gábor Stefanik
2010-02-19 18:24                 ` Johannes Berg
2010-02-19 18:33                   ` Gábor Stefanik
2010-02-19 18:41                     ` Johannes Berg
2010-02-19 18:10           ` Larry Finger
2010-02-19 18:19             ` Johannes Berg

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