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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2012-03-15 13:26:47 -0700
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2012-04-09 16:37:18 -0400
commitd9df23e930cb29a760c227c443ac36205eb55f58 (patch)
tree496418f1d08193d495307cee8553b1be9dc7fb7c
parent0ca24daff5b8d584f91172f08f34ce0856ebe4a1 (diff)
downloadlinux-d9df23e930cb29a760c227c443ac36205eb55f58.tar.bz2
iwlwifi: clarify config struct comments
It talks about treating different uCode APIs as different pieces of hardware which really isn't how we handle things. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-shared.h10
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-shared.h b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-shared.h
index b515d657a0ad..94b16ccddebc 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-shared.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-shared.h
@@ -307,13 +307,9 @@ struct iwl_ht_params {
* @iq_invert: I/Q inversion
* @temp_offset_v2: support v2 of temperature offset calibration
*
- * We enable the driver to be backward compatible wrt API version. The
- * driver specifies which APIs it supports (with @ucode_api_max being the
- * highest and @ucode_api_min the lowest). Firmware will only be loaded if
- * it has a supported API version.
- *
- * The ideal usage of this infrastructure is to treat a new ucode API
- * release as a new hardware revision.
+ * We enable the driver to be backward compatible wrt. hardware features.
+ * API differences in uCode shouldn't be handled here but through TLVs
+ * and/or the uCode API version instead.
*/
struct iwl_cfg {
/* params specific to an individual device within a device family */