[PATCH] ssb: workarounds: be verbose about hacking SPROM revision, don't duplicate code

Michael Büsch mb at bu3sch.de
Wed Nov 3 17:53:38 EDT 2010


On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 16:52 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: 
> On 11/03/2010 04:43 PM, Michael Büsch wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 22:06 +0100, Rafał Miłecki wrote: 
> >> +	default:
> >> +		ssb_printk(KERN_WARNING PFX "Unsupported SPROM"
> >> +			   "  revision %d detected. Will extract"
> >> +			   " v1\n", out->revision);
> >> +		out->revision = 1;
> >> +		sprom_extract_r123(out, in);
> > 
> > I think we should change this to throw a hard error if the sprom is
> > unknown. Extracting r123 is unlikely to do any good these days.
> > This workaround was only useful back in the days where 95% of the
> > cards out there were r123. But today that's not the case.
> > 
> >> 	}
> >>  
> >>  	if (out->boardflags_lo == 0xFFFF)
> 
> In any case, the out->revision = 1 statement should be before the ssb_printk() call.

I don't think so.

-- 
Greetings Michael.




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