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Date:	Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:37:56 -0800
From:	Florian Fainelli <florian@...nwrt.org>
To:	Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@...il.com>
Cc:	Oleksij Rempel <linux@...pel-privat.de>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
	Jonathan Bither <jonbither@...il.com>,
	OpenWrt Development List <openwrt-devel@...ts.openwrt.org>,
	Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>,
	Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@...il.com>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...not-panic.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	"open list:ATHEROS ATH5K WIR..." <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	"open list:ATHEROS ATH5K WIR..." <ath5k-devel@...ts.ath5k.org>,
	open@...ke-m.de,
	"list@...ke-m.de:NETWORKING DRIVERS" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"antonynpavlov@...il.com" <antonynpavlov@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/28] Remove ATHEROS_AR231X

2014-02-10 4:38 GMT-08:00 Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@...il.com>:
> 2014-02-10 16:17 GMT+04:00 Oleksij Rempel <linux@...pel-privat.de>:
>> Am 10.02.2014 13:05, schrieb Sergey Ryazanov:
>>> 2014-02-10 0:03 GMT+04:00 Richard Weinberger <richard@....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@....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
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