[PATCH] b43: AC-PHY: prepare place for developing new PHY support

Kalle Valo kvalo at codeaurora.org
Sun Jan 25 23:04:33 PST 2015


Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> writes:

> There are new (not anymore?) Broadcom 802.11ac wireless cards based on
> chipsets like BCM4352 and BCM4360. They use a new PHY type (called
> simply AC) that will require new specific code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>
> ---
>
> Kalle: as this commit & Kconfig say, this is just a beginning of new
> PHY type support. In the past we used development model this patch
> follows. Code for new PHY was added patch by patch. Adding everything
> at once would require a huge patchset & development behing the doors.
> Also sending small patches allows better review of changes & should
> result in a better code quality. Let me know if there are any
> problems.

Sounds good to me. Just keep dependency to BROKEN until it's usable and
make sure that the code compiles after every patch.

-- 
Kalle Valo



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