From: "Henry Ptasinski" <henryp@broadcom.com>
To: "Jonas Gorski" <jonas.gorski@gmail.com>
Cc: "linville@tuxdriver.com" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
"gregkh@suse.de" <gregkh@suse.de>,
"devel@linuxdriverproject.org" <devel@linuxdriverproject.org>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"Henry Ptasinski" <henryp@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Move brcm80211 to mainline
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:59:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110825175903.GD2058@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOiHx=narxG2WG1+8jDTah=u=XQ337K7UZZgd8Fv9xksufkEKw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 03:34:52AM -0700, Jonas Gorski wrote:
> > I believe the only SB bus functions that brcmfmac uses are the core reset and
> > disable functions, and only when initializing the chip to download firmware
> > (all other management of the bus is handled by the on-chip CPU). Is it
> > possible to use those funtions from ssb, without the ssb module trying to
> > manage the bus?
>
> I haven't really looked at how much the brcmfmac driver uses ssb; I
> just saw s(s)b_* stuff in there and remembered that ssb supports SDIO
> host, so I assumed that there's part of the stack hidden in brcmfmac.
> But if it's only core reset and disable, then what Michael said
> applies ;-)
Yes, I was doubting there would be much benefit, but didn't have a strong
opinion either way.
Thanks for the feedback.
- Henry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-25 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-07 0:20 [RFC] Move brcm80211 to mainline Henry Ptasinski
2011-07-07 0:40 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-07-07 0:58 ` Pavel Roskin
2011-07-07 1:45 ` Greg KH
2011-07-07 14:46 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-07-07 14:58 ` Greg KH
2011-07-07 21:55 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-07-07 22:04 ` Greg KH
2011-07-07 22:25 ` Pavel Roskin
2011-07-07 15:17 ` Jonas Gorski
2011-07-07 21:21 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-07-07 0:45 ` Pavel Roskin
2011-07-07 15:01 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-24 22:28 ` [PATCH v2] " Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-24 22:53 ` Greg KH
2011-08-24 23:17 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-24 23:47 ` Greg KH
2011-08-24 23:54 ` Joe Perches
2011-08-25 0:42 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-25 0:52 ` Joe Perches
2011-08-25 1:11 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-25 2:23 ` Greg KH
2011-08-25 2:45 ` Joe Perches
2011-08-25 5:02 ` Johannes Berg
2011-09-30 21:54 ` Arend Van Spriel
2011-09-30 22:11 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-08-24 23:05 ` Dan Carpenter
2011-08-25 0:49 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-24 23:10 ` Aaro Koskinen
2011-08-24 23:18 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-24 23:54 ` Aaro Koskinen
2011-08-24 23:41 ` Jonas Gorski
2011-08-25 0:20 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-25 8:53 ` Michael Büsch
2011-08-25 10:34 ` Jonas Gorski
2011-08-25 17:59 ` Henry Ptasinski [this message]
2011-08-25 21:07 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-25 21:09 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-26 17:58 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-25 20:55 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-25 21:11 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-25 21:23 ` Larry Finger
2011-08-26 17:55 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-26 19:37 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-26 19:45 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-27 12:05 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-27 13:18 ` Michael Büsch
2011-08-27 13:58 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-30 13:02 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-27 14:35 ` Dan Carpenter
2011-08-27 14:50 ` Greg KH
2011-08-27 15:08 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-27 15:12 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-27 16:45 ` Hauke Mehrtens
2011-08-27 15:21 ` Greg KH
2011-08-27 15:27 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-30 1:42 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-30 4:28 ` Greg KH
2011-08-30 6:22 ` Johannes Berg
2011-08-30 8:31 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-30 9:28 ` Michael Büsch
2011-08-31 12:31 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-30 6:17 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-09-10 16:48 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-30 18:14 ` Greg KH
2011-08-31 17:55 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-08-31 18:33 ` Greg KH
2011-08-31 18:58 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-08-31 11:55 ` Hauke Mehrtens
2011-08-31 14:18 ` John W. Linville
2011-08-31 17:46 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-08-31 17:47 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-08-27 14:59 ` Rafał Miłecki
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2011-08-27 16:41 Xose Vazquez Perez
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