Return-path: Received: from mail-vw0-f43.google.com ([209.85.212.43]:49738 "EHLO mail-vw0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932397Ab1IHIq3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2011 04:46:29 -0400 Received: by vws10 with SMTP id 10so844924vws.2 for ; Thu, 08 Sep 2011 01:46:28 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 10:46:25 +0200 Message-ID: (sfid-20110908_104632_902230_0D28628B) Subject: About the patch: "staging: brcm80211: only enable brcmsmac if bcma is not set" From: Francis Moreau To: Arend van Spriel Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello, I have a question regarding the following patch: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/75638 The commit message says: brcmsmac doesn't yet use bcma, but both drivers attempt to claim the same device. For now, turn of brcmsmac if bcma is enabled. I think it's not quite complete: both driver claim the same devices (actually that's not entirely true since b43/bcma can drive on more card) but in the case of b43/bcma not all cards are actually working. For example I'm using BCM4313 card with an unsupported phy (B43_PHYTYPE_LCN) so it's basically not supported by b43/bcma. So I'm wondering if b43/bcma should be simply disabled until it got the same level of support as brcmsmac ? Thanks -- Francis