Re: [patch staging] BCM70010 (crystalhd) Linux Driver

[Manu Abraham <abraham.manu@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 2:03 AM, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Manu Abraham <abraham.manu@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 08:05:38PM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote:
>>>> Hi Greg,
>>>>
>>>> > I'm glad to do so if someone wants to help work on it there and shephard
>>>> > it into the main kernel tree.
>>>>
>>>> Please find the initial round of cleaned up patches for staging,
>>>> applied against linux-next.
>>>
>>> Did you really author this driver?  If so, that's fine, just checking.
>>> If not, please put the correct authorship "From:" in the patch.
>>
>> I am not the author of the driver. I just picked it up and cleaned it
>> up for Coding style changes for it to be included.
>
> I'm not against this submission, but would it be better to wait until
> Monday when the Broadcom authors are back as see if they want to
> submit their own driver? That way changes would end up back in their
> internal VCS.


Sure, of course,


> I'd like to see a real datasheet for this chip, the public one is
> nothing but a marketing blurb.

You mean a user manual with a description of the registers, don't you ?
Decoder datasheets from whichever manufacturer rarely come into
public. Even with NDA's it is quite hard to get hold of a "proper one"

Regards,
Manu