[PATCH] b43: HT-PHY: make it BCMA-only

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 2 04:45:17 EST 2013


2013/3/2 Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de>:
> On 03/02/2013 10:19 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> 2013/3/2 Michael Büsch <m at bues.ch>:
>>> On Sat,  2 Mar 2013 02:14:25 +0100
>>> Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> HT-PHY was found only on BCM4331 which is a BCMA-based chipset. This is
>>>> reallly unlikely we will ever see HT-PHY on SSB thus make the whole code
>>>> BCMA specific. This will allow us to call various BCMA-specific
>>>> functions directly (without extra checks).
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig  |    2 +-
>>>>  drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_ht.c |    5 +++++
>>>>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig
>>>> index 7a28d21..09d315d 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig
>>>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig
>>>> @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ config B43_PHY_LP
>>>>
>>>>  config B43_PHY_HT
>>>>       bool "Support for HT-PHY (high throughput) devices (EXPERIMENTAL)"
>>>> -     depends on B43 && EXPERIMENTAL
>>>> +     depends on B43 && B43_BCMA && EXPERIMENTAL
>>>
>>> Makes sense.
>>> What about removing EXPERIMENTAL? This flag is mostly useless these days.
>>
>> A little later, I've plan for some minor improvement :)
>
> There is already a patch [0] in Linus tree removing EXPERIMENTAL.
>
> Hauke
>
> [0]:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=afd19ef0b1a98f420ddcfc619182fd589034577f

Glad there was a b43-dev Cc...

John please drop this patch. I'll wait for you merging Linus's tree
and re-submit it rebased.

-- 
Rafał



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