From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756028Ab0IQSd5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:33:57 -0400 Received: from mail.tpi.com ([70.99.223.143]:2392 "EHLO mail.tpi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754319Ab0IQSd4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:33:56 -0400 Message-ID: <4C93B486.8050706@canonical.com> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:33:42 -0600 From: Tim Gardner Reply-To: tim.gardner@canonical.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Rudley CC: Greg KH , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Henry Ptasinski , Nohee Ko Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: brcm80211: Make CFLAGS explicit References: <1284736810-2940-1-git-send-email-tim.gardner@canonical.com> <20100917162142.GA30385@suse.de> <4C93A8F9.9090108@canonical.com> <7A94256FD72B884D9E7C55586C3CBCEE12BEC65BEC@SJEXCHCCR01.corp.ad.broadcom.com> In-Reply-To: <7A94256FD72B884D9E7C55586C3CBCEE12BEC65BEC@SJEXCHCCR01.corp.ad.broadcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/17/2010 12:03 PM, Brett Rudley wrote: > > In a split mac dongle, the HIGH code runs on the host processor while > the LOW code runs on the dongle and the two talk across an RPC API > over SDIO or USB. > Don't you have the orientation inverted? WLC_LOW is defined for a PCI NIC. > On a NIC both HIGH and LOW run on the host and the RPC API remains > identical but the APIs become function straight calls. > I'm a bit confused by this. For PCI NICs WLC_HIGH_ONLY is definitely _not_ enabled, which means to me that HIGH is not running on the host. > This lets us use the same code and API in both models. > > Getting some documentation out on this is in TODO list. > Thanks. Perhaps that'll clear up some confusion. > Brett -- Tim Gardner tim.gardner@canonical.com