From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: Please pull 'ssb-drivers' branch of wireless-2.6 Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:25:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20070919.142529.03110023.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20070919204428.GE5483@tuxdriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jeff@garzik.org, gregkh@suse.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net, zambrano@broadcom.com, mb@bu3sch.de To: linville@tuxdriver.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:60156 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756577AbXISVZb (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:25:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070919204428.GE5483@tuxdriver.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: "John W. Linville" Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:44:28 -0400 > Jeff, Greg, Gary, and Dave, > > These patches build upon the SSB bus support added to net-2.6.24 to > support the b43 wireless driver. Since Dave has that support in his > tree, I'm asking him to merge these patches as well. > > The first patch changes b44 from being a PCI (i.e. SSB-in-drag) > device to being a native SSB device. This has little effect one > way or the other for laptop/desktop/server machines. But, some > embedded devices have b44 hardware but no PCI bus (i.e. just SSB). > This patch enables the use of the b44 driver on that hardware. > > The second patch adds a driver for a USB OHCI device which lives on > the SSB bus. Again, this is found on a number of SoC devices used > especially in wireless routers and APs. > > Thanks for reviewing/ACKing/merging! I've merged the B44 driver conversion into my tree. I'll let Greg take in the OHCI thing. I would suggest that he queue it up, and then once I get the net-2.6.24 tree into the merge window (which contains the SSB stack) he can push the OHCI change in afterwards.