[OpenWrt-Devel] [RFC 2/3] kernel: owl-loader for delayed Atheros ath9k fixup

[Martin Blumenstingl]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Christian Lamparter
<chunkeey at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Seems like there are only two differences between the lantiq and the
>> ar71xx code:
>> 1. pci_write_config_dword(dev, PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_0, base); vs per-SoC
>> value in ar71xx
>> 2. swab32(val) when writing the caldata
> Ok, if this common arch-specific pci_ath9k_fixup isn't a thing.
> Then what about moving this to ath9k? As this code is duplicated
> for several archs in the same way (ar71xx, bcm63xx, lantiq and
> also a cut-down version can be found for mpc85xx [0]).
>
> We simply move the platform-specific "base" into ath9k_platform_data
> and pass it to the driver and have a bools to control whenever the
> vals need to be swapped or not.
sounds fine to me

@Felix: I added you because you are the mac80211 package maintainer.
would be great if you could comment on this patch and the whole idea
in this thread.
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