[PATCH] b43: treat LCNXN-PHY as extra N-PHY devices

Arend van Spriel arend at broadcom.com
Tue Jul 1 03:13:18 PDT 2014


On 30-06-14 13:04, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> On 30 June 2014 12:54, Arend van Spriel <arend at broadcom.com> wrote:
>> On 29-06-14 21:46, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>>> LCNXN is simply a continuation of N, e.g. code handling LCNXN revs 0 and
>>> 1 is mostly the same as for N-PHY revs 7+.
>>
>> Hi Rafał,
>>
>> LCNXN is actually a LCN phy with 2 streams (mimo).
> 
> Err, I don't think so. Could you take a closer look at this? I'm
> pretty sure LCNXN is continuation of N.

You got me. I taken a closer look. It seems to stand for e'x'tended n.
There was separate phy code for it, but in recent code it seems to be
handled by n phy code. So you are right.

> Maybe you were thinking about LCN40? I don't know much about LCN40,
> maybe it's a variation of LCN?

Probably.

Gr. AvS




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