[Meego-kernel] Patch[0/6] Enable WLAN for wl1273

[Seibel, Eric]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arjan van de Ven [mailto:arjan at linux.intel.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 7:28 PM
> To: Seibel, Eric
> Cc: Alan Cox; meego-kernel at meego.com
> Subject: Re: [Meego-kernel] Patch[0/6] Enable WLAN for wl1273
> 
> On 11/18/2010 11:32 PM, Seibel, Eric wrote:
> > New series of patches to enable WLAN using re-factorization of delayed
> devices mechanism proposed by Pierre.
> > All these patches were tested on iCDK with Meego meego-hanset-ia32-mtf-
> devel-1.1.80.6.20101112.1.sda.bin and applied on kernel mid
> 2.6.35.3.230.1.src.rpm
> >
> > Also, because we are using compat-wireless since Meego is based on kernel
> 2.6.35, we should modified config file to compile wlan and regulator
> correctly:
> > CONFIG_WL12XX=y
> > CONFIG_WL1271=m
> > CONFIG_WL1271_SPI=m
> 
> these are not correct; they'll cause us to compile the in kernel
> drivers, rather than the ones from compat-wireless.
> 
> I'll make sure the in-kernel ones are turned off.
> 
Because we need CONFIG_WL12XX_PLATFORM_DATA=y
The upstream driver uses a small file made to be build-in that holds pointer to some platform data, that platform code will furnish.
Originated submitted code made wl12xx a platform driver + sdio driver. Upstream was not very confortable with this and preferred this simpler solution.

So those =y then just builds 2 functions (set/get) and a static pointer in, not any whole wireless driver.

Pierre & Eric
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