Return-path: Received: from mail-tul01m020-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:54160 "EHLO mail-tul01m020-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754193Ab2AKOao (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:30:44 -0500 Received: by obbup16 with SMTP id up16so916766obb.19 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:30:43 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4F0D9BF8.7020001@broadcom.com> References: <4F0D7F6B.5000601@broadcom.com> <4F0D9BF8.7020001@broadcom.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:30:43 +0100 Message-ID: (sfid-20120111_153047_601097_6D308361) Subject: Re: 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: On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Arend van Spriel wrote: > On 01/11/2012 02:13 PM, Francis Moreau wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Arend van Spriel wrote: >>> On 01/11/2012 12:40 PM, Francis Moreau wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> This has finally been merged and is part of the 3.2 release. >>>> >>>> So now distros don't ship the brcmsmac driver anymore which is >>>> basically the only driver which can handle my card. >>> >>> I am not sure why you come to that conclusion, >> >> I checked on both OpenSuse and Mandriva, and they both have CONFIG_BCMA=m. >> >>> For kernel v3.3 the brcmsmac driver will be using bcma. >> >> Great. >> >> But v3.2... >> > > Given the configuration BCMA=m I agree that brcmsmac is probably not in > the distro in binary form. However, you can probably install the kernel > source package and rebuilt the kernel with BCMA=n and BRCMSMAC=m. Sure but it's not really nice for all users in the same case, specially since we could have done otherwise that would have make happy the poor user I am until the b43 has support for bcma (next release if I understood correctly). Users are unlikely to know/will to recompile his kernel, I think. -- Francis