what's the status of ATHEROS_AR71XX config variable?

what's the status of ATHEROS_AR71XX config variable?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  from drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Makefile:

ath9k-$(CONFIG_ATHEROS_AR71XX) += ahb.o

but there is no such config variable.  so i'm thinking *something*
should be removed.

rday

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Re: what's the status of ATHEROS_AR71XX config variable?

[Felix Fietkau]

On 2010-07-16 10:43 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   from drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Makefile:
> 
> ath9k-$(CONFIG_ATHEROS_AR71XX) += ahb.o
> 
> but there is no such config variable.  so i'm thinking *something*
> should be removed.
The platform port for AR71xx hasn't been submitted upstream yet. But the
code in ahb.c is actively being used in OpenWrt.

I don't know what the status on submitting the code to linux-mips is,
but I've Cc'd Gabor, he should know ;)

- Felix

Re: what's the status of ATHEROS_AR71XX config variable?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 16 Jul 2010, Felix Fietkau wrote:

> On 2010-07-16 10:43 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >   from drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Makefile:
> >
> > ath9k-$(CONFIG_ATHEROS_AR71XX) += ahb.o
> >
> > but there is no such config variable.  so i'm thinking *something*
> > should be removed.

> The platform port for AR71xx hasn't been submitted upstream yet. But
> the code in ahb.c is actively being used in OpenWrt.
>
> I don't know what the status on submitting the code to linux-mips
> is, but I've Cc'd Gabor, he should know ;)

  ok.  i wasn't passing judgment one way or the other, just making an
observation that the mainstream kernel doesn't define that config
variable.  you can take it from here.

rday

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Re: what's the status of ATHEROS_AR71XX config variable?

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 3:45 AM, Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> wrote:
> On 2010-07-16 10:43 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>
>>   from drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/Makefile:
>>
>> ath9k-$(CONFIG_ATHEROS_AR71XX) += ahb.o
>>
>> but there is no such config variable.  so i'm thinking *something*
>> should be removed.
> The platform port for AR71xx hasn't been submitted upstream yet. But the
> code in ahb.c is actively being used in OpenWrt.
>
> I don't know what the status on submitting the code to linux-mips is,
> but I've Cc'd Gabor, he should know ;)

If its actively being supporting and tested, why not submit it now?
Any particular large pending blockers?

  Luis