Where to power on the wifi device before loading the driver.

Franky Lin frankyl at broadcom.com
Thu Jun 14 12:45:56 EDT 2012


On 06/13/2012 09:17 PM, Wei Ni wrote:
> Wei: Yes, in OOB mode, it's easy to add a device node in the DT, to pass
> the gpio property to brcmfmac driver. But the NO-OOB mode doesn’t use the
> virtual platform device, so we can't pass the gpio to driver. We need to find
> a way to support these two mode both.
> Could we use the virtual platform device both for OOB and NO-OOB mode? so that
> we can implement power control in these two mode, and we can add a flags to
> control if need to power on or not.

Of course you can use it for non OOB.

> BTW, does that power on sequence is generally for 4329?

Yes.

Regards.
Franky




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