Re: [PATCH 09/28] Remove ATHEROS_AR231X

Florian Fainelli
2014-02-10T22:38:38Z

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.
--
Florian