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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>
Johannes Berg 13 years ago
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      drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-shared.h

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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 */