Per Opus structural critique §4.1 (#if 0 graveyard), §4.3 (asm
volatile("nop") placeholder), §4.4 (BUG_ON in steady-state hot
path). Pure source-tree cleanup, no functional change.
Removed:
1. bh.c lines 319-395 (76-line #if 0 block) — dead helper
functions inherited from cw1200 ancestor:
bes2600_bh_read_ctrl_reg, bes2600_get_skb, bes2600_put_skb,
bes2600_device_wakeup. Compiled out for years.
2. bh.c lines 405-873 + line 1659 (the outer #if 0 / #else /
#endif) — 468-line cw1200-ancestor bes2600_bh() function body,
preserved verbatim alongside the active impl. Same function
name, same goto labels. Maintenance hazard removed.
3. bh.c done: label body — `__bes2600_irq_enable(1)` placeholder
(commented out) + `asm volatile ("nop")` filler. Both
no-ops on bes2600 silicon.
4. bh.c post-loop "Explicitly disable device interrupts" block
(sbus lock + __bes2600_irq_enable(0) + sbus unlock) — the
stub call wrapped in lock/unlock ceremony. Dead.
5. hwio.c __bes2600_irq_enable() function definition —
`int __bes2600_irq_enable(int enable) { return 0; }`. Stub.
Removed entirely.
6. sbus.h __bes2600_irq_enable() forward declaration.
Replaced:
7. bh.c bes2600_bh outer-loop BUG_ON(hw_bufs_used > numInpChBufs)
-> WARN_ON_ONCE. The BUG_ON ran every bh-loop iteration;
tripping it on a bookkeeping bug locks the kernel up during
normal operation — the wrong response to a (recoverable)
accounting drift. WARN_ON_ONCE surfaces the issue without
taking the system down.
Why __bes2600_irq_enable was a stub on bes2600:
cw1200 has the same-named function (drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/
hwio.c:267) that does real work — reads ST90TDS_CONFIG_REG_ID and
toggles the ST90TDS_CONF_IRQ_RDY_ENABLE bit. bes2600 inherited
the function name + signature when forked, but the bes2600 chip's
IRQ enable is managed by sdio_claim_irq + chip-side firmware, not
by a driver-side enable register. Bestechnic kept the function as
a no-op stub (return 0). Patch H removes the dead infrastructure.
Diff scope:
- bes2600/bh.c -578/+27 (mostly deletions)
- bes2600/hwio.c -7/+7 (stub function -> comment block)
- bes2600/sbus.h -2/+1 (declaration -> comment)
- net: -578/+28 across 3 files
Build verification deferred — ohm offline. Pure-deletion change,
no semantic risk; the deleted code was either #if 0-gated
(never compiled) or stub-implementations (always returned 0).
The bes2600 driver is a fork of the upstream cw1200 driver
(drivers/net/wireless/st/cw1200/, ST-Ericsson, Dmitry Tarnyagin
2010-2011). The fork's file headers have three GPL-compliance issues:
1. NO SPDX-License-Identifier on any of 48 source files (cw1200
mainline has them on all 25). kernel.org-mandated since 2017.
2. Original "Copyright (c) 2010, ST-Ericsson" lines stripped from
all files inherited from cw1200, replaced with
"Copyright (c) 2010, Bestechnic" — factually impossible
(Bestechnic did not author the 2010 work) and a GPL-2.0 §1
attribution-preservation violation.
3. The "GPL version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation"
boilerplate paragraph is redundant alongside SPDX and is the
legacy form modern kernel sources have replaced.
This patch corrects all three for the 48 .c/.h files in bes2600/:
- Adds `// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only` (or `/* ... */`
for headers) as line 1 of every file.
- Restores `Copyright (c) 2010, ST-Ericsson` + `Author: Dmitry
Tarnyagin <dmitry.tarnyagin@lockless.no>` as the FIRST copyright
chain entry on all 22 files derived from cw1200 (bh.{c,h},
debug.{c,h}, fwio.{c,h}, hwio.{c,h}, main.c, pm.{c,h},
queue.{c,h}, scan.{c,h}, sta.{c,h}, txrx.{c,h}, wsm.{c,h}).
- Keeps `Copyright (c) 2022, Bestechnic (Beijing) Co., Ltd.` as
the SECOND chain entry where Bestechnic genuinely contributed.
- Notes "Derived from cw1200_sdio.c" + ST-Ericsson copyright on
bes2600_sdio.c (heavy derivation, not a literal rename).
- Notes "Replaces hwbus.h from cw1200/" + ST-Ericsson copyright
on sbus.h.
- Preserves the prism54/islsm authorship chain on main.c and
bes2600.h (Michael Wu 2006 + Jean-Baptiste Note 2004-2006).
- Drops the GPL-2.0 boilerplate paragraph in favour of SPDX.
No code changes — only file-header comment blocks. Module build is
unaffected (verified by header-only diff scope).
This is a prerequisite for any kernel.org submission attempt. The
existing MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") + MODULE_AUTHOR(Tarnyagin@stericsson.com)
declarations were already present and are unchanged here; the
mismatch between MODULE_AUTHOR and the (since-corrected) per-file
copyrights is now resolved.
test0r
Julian