netdev - Re: SSB/b44 build failure

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Message-ID: <20070310180541.GA17160@infradead.org>
Date:	Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:05:42 +0000
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>, mb@...sch.de, bunk@...sta.de,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: SSB/b44 build failure

On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:03:46AM -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> FWIW, this is coming from the port of b44 to use the SSB bus which
> I'm carrying in the wireless-dev tree.
> >
> SSB (i.e. "Sonics Silicon Backplane") is a bus used in Broadcom SoCs
> including the b44 and bcm43xx hardware.  The SSB bus driver and the
> b44 port to SSB is being developed by Michael Buesch, the maintainer of
> the bcm43xx driver.  I've been carrying the b44 SSB port in my tree for
> Michael's convenience.  Just an FYI for those wondering what SSB is...

Btw, what's the reason this is in wireless-dev?  Could we please merge
this code into mainline soonish (aka 2.6.22) instead of interwinding
it with totally unrelated wireless changes?

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