netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/7] net: wireless: wcn36xx: add wcn3620 chip type definition

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Date:	Fri, 23 Jan 2015 17:39:40 +0200
From:	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:	Andy Green <andy.green@...aro.org>
Cc:	Eugene Krasnikov <k.eugene.e@...il.com>,
	wcn36xx <wcn36xx@...ts.infradead.org>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] net: wireless: wcn36xx: add wcn3620 chip type definition

Andy Green <andy.green@...aro.org> writes:

> On 18 January 2015 at 22:17, Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org> wrote:
>> Andy Green <andy.green@...aro.org> writes:
n>>
>>> Convert the list of chip types to an enum, add the default
>>> UNKNOWN type and a type for WCN3620 chip
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy.green@...aro.org>
>>
>> Please just use "wcn36xx: ", you should drop "net: wireless: " entirely.
>
> OK.
>
> Can you help me understand what you'd like to see happen with the chip
> variant detection stuff?

I haven't looked at wcn36xx for a long time so I'm not really the right
person to answer. I'm more like a desk jockey now ;)

> There's a comment sent to one list only saying it might be preferable
> to keep the old detection code as the default.  But there are no
> in-tree users of wcn36xx (mainly due to PIL not being in mainline, I
> guess).
>
> The old test's equivalence that AC == 3680 seems kind of weak to me
> and establishing the type must be passed in from platform code
> reflects the situation that there's no public way to detect the chip
> type from Qualcomm.  In the second not-for-upstream series I use that
> to pass it in from DT, which is how it'd be normally used.

Please remember that the DT bindings document has to be acked by the
device-tree maintainers.

-- 
Kalle Valo
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