From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: "Michael Büsch" <m@bues.ch>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
b43-dev <b43-dev@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] b43/legacy: Remove firmware IDs
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 10:29:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E51243F.9030709@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110821172447.4d8725da@milhouse>
On 08/21/2011 10:24 AM, Michael Büsch wrote:
> This removes the "FWxx" ID strings from the b43 and b43legacy
> drivers. They were once used to match a specific driver revision
> to a set of firmware files. However, this is hardly useful today.
> Additionally, the IDs are not updated and maintained properly, so
> they might mislead users.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch<m@bues.ch>
>
> ---
>
> This is stuff for -next.
ACKed-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
>
> Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.h
> ===================================================================
> --- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.h 2011-08-21 14:11:32.230841828 +0200
> +++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.h 2011-08-21 14:12:03.778998292 +0200
> @@ -17,11 +17,6 @@
> #include "phy_common.h"
>
>
> -/* The unique identifier of the firmware that's officially supported by
> - * this driver version. */
> -#define B43_SUPPORTED_FIRMWARE_ID "FW13"
> -
> -
> #ifdef CONFIG_B43_DEBUG
> # define B43_DEBUG 1
> #else
> Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
> ===================================================================
> --- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c 2011-08-21 14:12:08.859023457 +0200
> +++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c 2011-08-21 14:13:27.587413841 +0200
> @@ -66,7 +66,6 @@
> MODULE_AUTHOR("Gábor Stefanik");
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>
> -MODULE_FIRMWARE(B43_SUPPORTED_FIRMWARE_ID);
> MODULE_FIRMWARE("b43/ucode11.fw");
> MODULE_FIRMWARE("b43/ucode13.fw");
> MODULE_FIRMWARE("b43/ucode14.fw");
> @@ -5416,8 +5415,7 @@
> feat_sdio = "S";
> #endif
> printk(KERN_INFO "Broadcom 43xx driver loaded "
> - "[ Features: %s%s%s%s%s, Firmware-ID: "
> - B43_SUPPORTED_FIRMWARE_ID " ]\n",
> + "[ Features: %s%s%s%s%s ]\n",
> feat_pci, feat_pcmcia, feat_nphy,
> feat_leds, feat_sdio);
> }
> Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/b43legacy.h
> ===================================================================
> --- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/b43legacy.h 2011-08-21 14:14:36.575755946 +0200
> +++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/b43legacy.h 2011-08-21 14:14:44.627795873 +0200
> @@ -22,10 +22,6 @@
> #include "phy.h"
>
>
> -/* The unique identifier of the firmware that's officially supported by this
> - * driver version. */
> -#define B43legacy_SUPPORTED_FIRMWARE_ID "FW10"
> -
> #define B43legacy_IRQWAIT_MAX_RETRIES 20
>
> /* MMIO offsets */
> Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c
> ===================================================================
> --- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c 2011-08-21 14:14:47.879811994 +0200
> +++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c 2011-08-21 14:15:27.028006541 +0200
> @@ -60,7 +60,6 @@
> MODULE_AUTHOR("Michael Buesch");
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>
> -MODULE_FIRMWARE(B43legacy_SUPPORTED_FIRMWARE_ID);
> MODULE_FIRMWARE("b43legacy/ucode2.fw");
> MODULE_FIRMWARE("b43legacy/ucode4.fw");
>
> @@ -3947,8 +3946,7 @@
> feat_dma = "D";
> #endif
> printk(KERN_INFO "Broadcom 43xx-legacy driver loaded "
> - "[ Features: %s%s%s%s, Firmware-ID: "
> - B43legacy_SUPPORTED_FIRMWARE_ID " ]\n",
> + "[ Features: %s%s%s%s ]\n",
> feat_pci, feat_leds, feat_pio, feat_dma);
> }
>
>
>
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