[PATCH][WAS:bcmai, axi] bcma: add Broadcom specific AMBA bus driver

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Sat May 7 12:51:30 EDT 2011


2011/5/7 Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de>:
> On 05/07/2011 06:23 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> 2011/5/7 Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de>:
>>> On 05/05/2011 11:59 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>>>> Cc: Greg KH <greg at kroah.com>
>>>> Cc: Michael Büsch <mb at bu3sch.de>
>>>> Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
>>>> Cc: George Kashperko <george at znau.edu.ua>
>>>> Cc: Arend van Spriel <arend at broadcom.com>
>>>> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
>>>> Cc: Russell King <rmk at arm.linux.org.uk>
>>>> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>>>> Cc: Andy Botting <andy at andybotting.com>
>>>> Cc: linuxdriverproject <devel at linuxdriverproject.org>
>>>> Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org <linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> V2: Rename to axi
>>>>     Use DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE in bridge
>>>>     Make use of pr_fmt and pr_*
>>>>     Store core class
>>>>     Rename bridge to not b43 specific
>>>>     Replace magic 0x1000 with BCMAI_CORE_SIZE
>>>>     Remove some old "ssb" names and defines
>>>>     Move BCMAI_ADDR_BASE def
>>>>     Add drvdata field
>>>> V3: Fix reloading (kfree issue)
>>>>     Add 14e4:0x4331
>>>>     Fix non-initialized struct issue
>>>>     Drop useless inline functions wrappers for pci core drv
>>>>     Proper pr_* usage
>>>> V3.1: Include forgotten changes (pr_* and include related)
>>>>     Explain why we dare to implement empty release function
>>>> V4: Add ABI documentation
>>>>     Move struct device to wrapper and alloc it dynamically
>>>>     checkpatch.pl pointed fixes
>>>> V5: Rename to bcma, AXI was really bad name
>>>>     Use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
>>>>     Set pci driver fields in one place
>>>>     Drop unlikely
>>>>     Use BCMA_CORE_SIZE for calc in awrite32
>>>>     Add README
>>>>     Fix compilation (delay.h)
>>>> ---
>>>>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-bcma    |   31 ++
>>>>  drivers/Kconfig                             |    2 +
>>>>  drivers/Makefile                            |    1 +
>>>>  drivers/bcma/Kconfig                        |   33 +++
>>>>  drivers/bcma/Makefile                       |    7 +
>>>>  drivers/bcma/README                         |   18 ++
>>>>  drivers/bcma/TODO                           |    3 +
>>>>  drivers/bcma/bcma_private.h                 |   31 ++
>>>>  drivers/bcma/core.c                         |   51 ++++
>>>>  drivers/bcma/driver_chipcommon.c            |   87 ++++++
>>>>  drivers/bcma/driver_chipcommon_pmu.c        |  134 +++++++++
>>>>  drivers/bcma/driver_pci.c                   |  163 +++++++++++
>>>>  drivers/bcma/host_pci.c                     |  196 +++++++++++++
>>>>  drivers/bcma/main.c                         |  271 ++++++++++++++++++
>>>>  drivers/bcma/scan.c                         |  392 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>  drivers/bcma/scan.h                         |   56 ++++
>>>>  include/linux/bcma/bcma.h                   |  232 ++++++++++++++++
>>>>  include/linux/bcma/bcma_driver_chipcommon.h |  297 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>  include/linux/bcma/bcma_driver_pci.h        |   89 ++++++
>>>>  include/linux/bcma/bcma_regs.h              |   34 +++
>>>>  include/linux/mod_devicetable.h             |   17 ++
>>>>  scripts/mod/file2alias.c                    |   22 ++
>>>>  22 files changed, 2167 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>>  create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-bcma
>>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/bcma/Kconfig
>>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/bcma/Makefile
>>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/bcma/README
>>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/bcma/TODO
>>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/bcma/bcma_private.h
>>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/bcma/core.c
>>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/bcma/driver_chipcommon.c
>>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/bcma/driver_chipcommon_pmu.c
>>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/bcma/driver_pci.c
>>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/bcma/host_pci.c
>>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/bcma/main.c
>>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/bcma/scan.c
>>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/bcma/scan.h
>>>>  create mode 100644 include/linux/bcma/bcma.h
>>>>  create mode 100644 include/linux/bcma/bcma_driver_chipcommon.h
>>>>  create mode 100644 include/linux/bcma/bcma_driver_pci.h
>>>>  create mode 100644 include/linux/bcma/bcma_regs.h
>>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> An entry in the MAINTAINERS file would be nice to find the right
>>> addresses to send patches to.
>>
>> Will do, thanks. Should I put some ML for this driver?
>> netdev at vger.kernel.org? linux-wireless at vger.kernel.org? So far there
>> are no net drivers for BCMA. Probably b43 will be the first (or
>> brcm80211).
>>
> There is a Ethernet core used on embedded devices with this bus and
> George wrote a driver for the first version of this bus implementation,
> he send to the ML. Most user will use this with some wireless devices so
> I would add linux-wireless at vger.kernel.org. Why does ssb uses netdev ML?

Thanks, I didn't know about this ethernet driver. Have to check it!
Where was this published? Do you have a thread name?

I'm not sure if we want linux-wireless to be ML, if we already have
some Ethernet driver. Some network-general ML makes more sense then.
Maybe netdev would be better.

-- 
Rafał



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