netdev - Re: Merging SSB and HND/AI support

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Message-ID: <1295262781.3726.6.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
Date:	Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:13:01 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Michael Büsch <mb@...sch.de>
Cc:	Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski@...il.com>, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Merging SSB and HND/AI support

On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 11:56 +0100, Michael Büsch wrote:

> > As far as I can see, there are two possibilities:
> > 
> > a) Merge the HND/AI code into the current SSB code, or
> > 
> > b) add the missing code for SoCs to brcm80211 and replace the SSB code with it.
> 
> Why can't we keep those two platforms separated?
> Is there really a lot of shared code between SSB and HND/AI?

I don't think there's a lot of shared code, but I believe that you need
b43 to be able to target cores on both? And b43 currently uses the SSB
APIs only.

johannes

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