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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 16:38:12 +0100
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
To: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] rt2x00: RT5350 support
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Hi

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 03:32:19PM +0100, Daniel Golle wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 02:28:23PM +0100, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> > Repost patches from Daniel with updated clock handling and
> > correct author of RT5350 patch.
> > 
> > Note I did not test patches on SOC devices, but getting
> > clock frequency is simple and should be trouble-free.
> 
> Thanks a lot for handling this!
> And big thanks to everyone involved for reviewing a smelly pile of
> patches we had rotting here for half a decade...
> 
> Would you like me to re-work and re-submit the remaining patches needed
> to support RT3883 and RF3853?

Yes, please post them in small sets. 

> Otherwise, the next thing I'd have in mind would be to add device-tree
> bindings to handle in-flash EEPROM loading, see the patches 60[2-9]* in
> https://git.lede-project.org/?p=source.git;a=tree;f=package/kernel/mac80211/patches
> 
> Imho having only support for MTD partitions and skip support for
> requesting firmware files from userspace for now would be the cleanest
> way towards proper WiSoC support in vanilla kernels.
> Obviously our existing patches need to be reworked and stuff needs to
> be added to Documentation/devicetree/bindings.
> Support for non-device-tree legacy platforms which need platform_data
> and legacy EEPROM loading mechanism can remain a local patch in our
> tree until those will no longer be needed.
> Does everybody agree with this general direction?

Sound ok for me.

Thanks
Stanislaw