[PATCH] SDIO support for Globalscale Dreamplug

Ilya Bakulin ilya at bakulin.de
Thu Aug 22 07:24:41 UTC 2013


On 22.08.13 09:12, Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> On Aug 22, 2013, at 12:18 AM, Ilya Bakulin wrote:
>> Furthermore, it's only partly SDIO-specific. The same driver should work
>> for USB- and PCIe-based versions of Marvell Avastar 88W8787 and 88W8797.
>> The Linux driver is split into several files, by the way, for PCIe, USB
>> and SDIO, then for station and AP mode.
> 
> We don't have any drivers in the tree that are this bus agnostic. Would be cool to grow some :)
So I'll try at least :-) Especially if I manage to get those chips with
non-SDIO interface. Otherwise it makes little sense :-)

>> The code in Linux driver is clean and understandable, although I would
>> prefer to get the documentation for the chipset and not use Linux as the
>> single source of information.
>> What's with the licensing in this case by the way?
> 
> Copying ideas and facts: no problem.
> Copying code: you must adhere to the license if you copied enough to be covered under copyright law....  It's complicated and best avoided.

I don't copy any code, only ideas and constants that are nessesary for
writing the code.
If someone could assist me in getting docs from Marvell, that would be
awesome :)

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Regards,
Ilya Bakulin


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