On Saturday 10 March 2007 19:05, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:03:46AM -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > > FWIW, this is coming from the port of b44 to use the SSB bus which > > I'm carrying in the wireless-dev tree. > > > > > SSB (i.e. "Sonics Silicon Backplane") is a bus used in Broadcom SoCs > > including the b44 and bcm43xx hardware. The SSB bus driver and the > > b44 port to SSB is being developed by Michael Buesch, the maintainer of > > the bcm43xx driver. I've been carrying the b44 SSB port in my tree for > > Michael's convenience. Just an FYI for those wondering what SSB is... > > Btw, what's the reason this is in wireless-dev? Could we please merge > this code into mainline soonish (aka 2.6.22) instead of interwinding > it with totally unrelated wireless changes?
nono, don't. SSB is still in heavy development and this would slow it down by magnitudes. The reason it's in wireless-dev is, because b44-ssb is simply just a "sideeffect" of ssb. ssb is mainly written for bcm43xx. That b44 also has a ssb bus is cool, so it can re-use the code. But there's _no_ reason to get ssb mainline without bcm43xx going mainline, too. b44-mainline does not depend on ssb. Current mainline has the ssb code built into b44. The b44 port in wireless-dev just rips that code out and uses the ssb subsystem (so it also adds a few features to b44. For example the ability to dump and write the EEPROM). It's really helpful to have the development of b44-ssb in wireless-dev, because there still are heavy changes in ssb. Being required to merge a ssb change through mainline before I can implement a new feature (or fix a bug) in bcm43xx-dev is just not acceptable. The _final_ merging is another story. I think a few days before wireless-dev is merged mainline ssb and b44-ssb should be merged mainline seperately. Just to make it clear that these are not wireless related. (ssb is not wireless related, too. Strictly said). Short: "totally unrelated wireless changes" is a false statement ;) -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
