From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: <yhchuang@realtek.com>
Cc: <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>, <pkshih@realtek.com>,
<kevin_yang@realtek.com>, <briannorris@chromium.org>,
<bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/7] rtw88: extract: export symbols used in chip functionalities
Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 12:17:08 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200518121708.AAD17C43636@smtp.codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200515052327.31874-2-yhchuang@realtek.com>
<yhchuang@realtek.com> wrote:
> From: Zong-Zhe Yang <kevin_yang@realtek.com>
>
> In the current design, various chip functions and tables
> are built into rtw88 core. That causes kernel to load its
> functionalities even if a chip isn't currently used. We
> plan to make each chip's functionalities a separate
> kernel module to reduce rtw88 core. And kernel will be
> able to load the necessary.
>
> Before extracting chip functionalities, we export symbols
> inside rtw88 core which will be used in chip modules.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zong-Zhe Yang <kevin_yang@realtek.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>
7 patches applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.
449be86670f5 rtw88: extract: export symbols used in chip functionalities
72f256c2b948 rtw88: extract: export symbols about pci interface
ba0fbe236fb8 rtw88: extract: make 8822c an individual kernel module
416e87fcc780 rtw88: extract: make 8822b an individual kernel module
f56f08636dda rtw88: extract: make 8723d an individual kernel module
51aab89a1808 rtw88: extract: remove the unused after extracting
6b684282afcc rtw88: rename rtw88.ko/rtwpci.ko to rtw88_core.ko/rtw88_pci.ko
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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11550499/
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-18 12:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-15 5:23 [PATCH v4 0/7] rtw88: extract chip tables from core module yhchuang
2020-05-15 5:23 ` [PATCH v4 1/7] rtw88: extract: export symbols used in chip functionalities yhchuang
2020-05-18 12:17 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2020-05-15 5:23 ` [PATCH v4 2/7] rtw88: extract: export symbols about pci interface yhchuang
2020-05-15 5:23 ` [PATCH v4 3/7] rtw88: extract: make 8822c an individual kernel module yhchuang
2020-05-15 5:23 ` [PATCH v4 4/7] rtw88: extract: make 8822b " yhchuang
2020-05-15 5:23 ` [PATCH v4 5/7] rtw88: extract: make 8723d " yhchuang
2020-05-15 5:23 ` [PATCH v4 6/7] rtw88: extract: remove the unused after extracting yhchuang
2020-05-15 5:23 ` [PATCH v4 7/7] rtw88: rename rtw88.ko/rtwpci.ko to rtw88_core.ko/rtw88_pci.ko yhchuang
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