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

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 26 00:12:20 PST 2015


On 26 January 2015 at 08:04, Kalle Valo <kvalo at codeaurora.org> wrote:
> 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.

Alright! :)

-- 
Rafał



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