From: "Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>
To: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>
Cc: "gregkh@suse.de" <gregkh@suse.de>,
"devel@linuxdriverproject.org" <devel@linuxdriverproject.org>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/21] staging: brcm80211: mostly fullmac cleanup patches
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 23:40:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E1384C8.9070501@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACna6rwqWnrK_UOhx8OEwm9vPv+LYtv6kV8frnQHB6c4wB3ZJQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 07/05/2011 10:38 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> 2011/7/5 Arend van Spriel<arend@broadcom.com>:
>> (...)
>> staging: brcm80211: removed brcmf_sdioh_interrupt_pending()
>> staging: brcm80211: removed brcmf_sdioh_reset()
>> staging: brcm80211: removed brcmf_sdioh_start() and
>> brcmf_sdioh_stop()
> Arend, can you say something more about what does happen here?
>
> You drop some functions that were empty, but I guess there were here
> for some reason. Did you discover in development process that things
> like start/stop/reset is not needed? Or did you put place for
> something that appeared to be not available on SDIO?
>
> Shouldn't we keep it here and just implement lacking code?
From what I know this code was intended platform/os independent. In the
open-source linux driver it was not needed as it relies on
mmc_core/sdhci/etc. modules. I am more focused on softmac driver so the
fullmac guys may want to correct my statements made here.
Gr. AvS
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-05 21:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-05 20:05 [PATCH v2 00/21] staging: brcm80211: mostly fullmac cleanup patches Arend van Spriel
2011-07-05 20:05 ` [PATCH v2 01/21] staging: brcm80211: removed last occurrences of bcmsdh/BCMSDH Arend van Spriel
2011-07-05 20:05 ` [PATCH v2 02/21] staging: brcm80211: sdh related code cleanup Arend van Spriel
2011-07-05 20:05 ` [PATCH v2 03/21] staging: brcm80211: removed brcmf_sdioh_interrupt_pending() Arend van Spriel
2011-07-05 20:06 ` [PATCH v2 04/21] staging: brcm80211: removed brcmf_sdioh_reset() Arend van Spriel
2011-07-05 20:06 ` [PATCH v2 05/21] staging: brcm80211: removed brcmf_sdioh_start() and brcmf_sdioh_stop() Arend van Spriel
2011-07-05 20:06 ` [PATCH v2 06/21] staging: brcm80211: removed file sdiovar.h Arend van Spriel
2011-07-05 20:06 ` [PATCH v2 07/21] staging: brcm80211: further cleaned fullmac header files Arend van Spriel
2011-07-05 20:06 ` [PATCH v2 08/21] staging: brcm80211: rename function variables Arend van Spriel
2011-07-05 20:06 ` [PATCH v2 09/21] staging: brcm80211: rename dhd_bus structure and functions Arend van Spriel
2011-07-05 20:06 ` [PATCH v2 10/21] staging: brcm80211: removed last typedefs from fullmac Arend van Spriel
2011-07-05 20:06 ` [PATCH v2 11/21] staging: brcm80211: removed unused code and definitions " Arend van Spriel
2011-07-05 20:06 ` [PATCH v2 12/21] staging: brcm80211: fullmac register access macro's take u32 instead of pointers Arend van Spriel
2011-07-05 20:06 ` [PATCH v2 13/21] staging: brcm80211: replaced macro R_SDREG by function r_sdreg() Arend van Spriel
2011-07-05 20:06 ` [PATCH v2 14/21] staging: brcm80211: replaced macro W_SDREG by function w_sdreg() Arend van Spriel
2011-07-05 20:06 ` [PATCH v2 15/21] staging: brcm80211: got rid of redundant member 'regs' of struct dhd_bus Arend van Spriel
2011-07-05 20:06 ` [PATCH v2 16/21] staging: brcm80211: removed last amd64 compiler warnings Arend van Spriel
2011-07-05 20:06 ` [PATCH v2 17/21] staging: brcm80211: W_REG macro cleanup in fullmac SDIO Arend van Spriel
2011-07-05 20:06 ` [PATCH v2 18/21] staging: brcm80211: removed unused definitions from dhd_sdio.c Arend van Spriel
2011-07-05 20:06 ` [PATCH v2 19/21] staging: brcm80211: rename structures and variables in wl_cfg80211.c Arend van Spriel
2011-07-05 20:06 ` [PATCH v2 20/21] staging: brcm80211: rename pointer conversion macros in wl_cfg80211.h Arend van Spriel
2011-07-05 20:06 ` [PATCH v2 21/21] staging: brcm80211: rename external function in wl_cfg80211.c Arend van Spriel
2011-07-05 20:38 ` [PATCH v2 00/21] staging: brcm80211: mostly fullmac cleanup patches Rafał Miłecki
2011-07-05 21:40 ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
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