linux-kernel - Re: Challenges with doing hardware bring up with Linux first

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Date:	Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:11:24 +0800
From:	Adrian Chadd <adrian@...ebsd.org>
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@...eros.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	"Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" <inaky.perez-gonzalez@...el.com>,
	Charles Marker <Charles.Marker@...eros.com>,
	Jouni Malinen <Jouni.Malinen@...eros.com>,
	Kevin Hayes <kevin@...eros.com>,
	Zhifeng Cai <zhifeng.cai@...eros.com>,
	Don Breslin <Don.Breslin@...eros.com>,
	Doug Dahlby <Doug.Dahlby@...eros.com>,
	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
Subject: Re: Challenges with doing hardware bring up with Linux first

On 21 November 2010 13:53, Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@...eros.com> wrote:

>> * decoupling the hardware twiddling stuff from OS/802.11 stack
>> specific stuff is helpful;
>
> ath9k_hw mostly is 802.11 stack independent except band enum usage,
> and maybe one other variable we stuffed in there to help clean out
> code more.

Yup, I saw that.


> Agreed. Thanks for your feedback.

No worries. You'll get more feedback when I come to actually trying to
port the AR9003 hwops code over.
As I said, I'll have a bit of a practice run soon with some of the
kite/merlin calibration stuff that isn't yet in FreeBSD.


Adrian
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