Return-path: Received: from mail-vw0-f52.google.com ([209.85.212.52]:46896 "EHLO mail-vw0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753407Ab1IMNmz convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:42:55 -0400 Received: by vws16 with SMTP id 16so1002681vws.11 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 06:42:54 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110913132844.GB11772@tuxdriver.com> References: <20110913132844.GB11772@tuxdriver.com> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:37:12 +0200 Message-ID: (sfid-20110913_154258_094594_2107B4D7) Subject: Re: About the patch: "staging: brcm80211: only enable brcmsmac if bcma is not set" From: Francis Moreau To: "John W. Linville" Cc: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Rafa=B3_Mi=B3ecki?= , Arend van Spriel , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 3:28 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 09:03:13AM +0200, Francis Moreau wrote: >> 2011/9/12 Rafał Miłecki : > >> > The real solution is to add bcma driver support in brcmsmac and ssb >> > driver support in brcmfmac. Then you can always use bcma and: >> > 1) If b43 will load and detect unsupported PHY, it will release the BCMA's core >> > 2) brcmsmac will be loaded to let it support the core >> > >> >> Thanks for the description. >> >> But what should be done for the time being (3.1-rc5) ? > > Turn-off CONFIG_B43_BCMA. > Does the b43/bcma driver support some cards that the brcmsmac one doesn't ? -- Francis