Re: [PATCH 09/28] Remove ATHEROS_AR231X

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 02:50:30PM +0400, Sergey Ryazanov wrote:
> 2014-02-11 3:43 GMT+04:00 Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com>:
> > 2014-02-11 2:37 GMT+04:00 Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>:
> >> 2014-02-10 4:38 GMT-08:00 Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@gmail.com>:
> >>> 2014-02-10 16:17 GMT+04:00 Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de>:
> >>>> Am 10.02.2014 13:05, schrieb Sergey Ryazanov:
> >>>>> 2014-02-10 0:03 GMT+04:00 Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>:
> >>>>>> Am 09.02.2014 20:18, schrieb Hauke Mehrtens:
> >>>>>>> On 02/09/2014 07:47 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> >>>>>>>> The symbol is an orphan, get rid of it.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
> >>>>>>>> ---
> >>>>>>>>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/Kconfig | 10 +++++-----
> >>>>>>>>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/ath5k.h | 28 ----------------------------
> >>>>>>>>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c  | 14 --------------
> >>>>>>>>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/led.c   |  7 -------
> >>>>>>>>  4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> This code is used in OpenWrt with an out of tree arch code for the
> >>>>>>> Atheros 231x/531x SoC. [0] I do not think anyone is working on adding
> >>>>>>> this code to mainline Linux kernel, because of lack of time/interest.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Sorry, we don't maintain out of tree code.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Oleksij, Jonathan do you still working to make ar231x devices work
> >>>>> with upstream, since your posts [1, 2]? Or may be someone from OpenWRT
> >>>>> team would like to add upstream support?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 1. https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/13/321
> >>>>> 2. https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/13/358
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>> my current target was to provide barebox and openocd support.
> >>>> - ar2313 is already upstream on barebox.
> >>>> - ar2315-2318 (barebox) awaiting review by Anthony Pavlov.
> >>>> - openocd (EJTAG) support is ready and i'll push it ASUP.
> >>>>
> >>> WOW, Impressive.
> >>
> >> That's a nice toy project, although since there are is an existing
> >> bootloader with sources, I would have shifted the priority towards
> >> getting the kernel support merged such that the bootloader can be used
> >> for something. BTW I sent a few devices to Jonathan, not sure if he
> >> ever got those...
> >>
> >>>
> >>>> I hope Jonathan do kernel part. If not, i can provide some work, since i
> >>>> have testing boards and expiriance on this hardware.
> >>>>
> >>> If you need, I can test kernel part, or even do some porting work. I
> >>> have some AR231x based boards, e.g. Ubnt LS2 and NS2.
> >>
> >> I guess you could start splitting the OpenWrt patches into a format
> >> that makes them suitable for being merged upstream and starting with
> >> the MIPS parts. There might be a bunch of checkpatch.pl cleanup work
> >> to do before getting those submitted.
> >
> > I will do that if Jonathan does not have a working solution, which he
> > would like to push upstream. So, let's wait for his reply.
> >
> 
> John, can you delay the merging of this patch for a few months, I will
> try to prepare the necessary patches to add AR231x architecture to the
> kernel and send them to linux-mips.

OK -- looking forward to your patches.

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