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    Add ath6kl cleaned up driver · bdcd8170
    Kalle Valo authored
    Last May we started working on cleaning up ath6kl driver which is
    currently in staging. The work has happened in a separate
    ath6kl-cleanup tree:
    
    http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kvalo/ath6kl-cleanup.git;a=summary
    
    After over 1100 (!) patches we have now reached a state where I would
    like to start discussing about pushing the driver to the wireless
    trees and replacing the staging driver.
    
    The driver is now a lot smaller and looks like a proper Linux driver.
    The size of the driver (measured with simple wc -l) dropped from 49
    kLOC to 18 kLOC and the number of the .c and .h files dropped from 107
    to 22. Most importantly the number of subdirectories reduced from 26
    to zero :)
    
    There are two remaining checkpatch warnings in the driver which we
    decided to omit for now:
    
    drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/debug.c:31:
      WARNING: printk() should include KERN_ facility level
    drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/sdio.c:527:
      WARNING: msleep < 20ms can sleep for up to 20ms;
      see Documentation/timers/timers-howto.txt
    
    The driver has endian annotations for all the hardware specific
    structures and there are no sparse errors. Unfortunately I don't have
    any big endian hardware to test that right now.
    
    We have been testing the driver both on x86 and arm platforms. The
    code is also compiled with sparc and parisc cross compilers.
    
    Notable missing features compared to the current staging driver are:
    
    o HCI over SDIO support
    o nl80211 testmode
    o firmware logging
    o suspend support
    
    Testmode, firmware logging and suspend support will be added soon. HCI
    over SDIO support will be more difficult as the HCI driver needs to
    share code with the wifi driver. This is something we need to research
    more.
    
    Also I want to point out the changes I did for signed endian support.
    As I wasn't able to find any support for signed endian annotations I
    decided to follow what NTFS has done and added my own. Grep for sle16
    and sle32, especially from wmi.h.
    
    Various people have been working on the cleanup, the hall of
    fame based on number of patches is:
    
       543  Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
       403  Raja Mani
       252  Kalle Valo
        16  Vivek Natarajan
        12  Suraj Sumangala
         3  Joe Perches
         2  Jouni Malinen
    Signed-off-by: default avatarVasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRaja Mani <rmani@qca.qualcomm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarVivek Natarajan <nataraja@qca.qualcomm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSuraj Sumangala <surajs@qca.qualcomm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
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