Return-path: Received: from mms3.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.19]:2942 "EHLO MMS3.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932786Ab2AKO0L (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:26:11 -0500 Message-ID: <4F0D9BF8.7020001@broadcom.com> (sfid-20120111_152615_195520_DF809D40) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:26:00 +0100 From: "Arend van Spriel" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Francis Moreau" cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "gregkh@suse.de" Subject: Re: About the patch: "staging: brcm80211: only enable brcmsmac if bcma is not set" References: <4F0D7F6B.5000601@broadcom.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. Gr. AvS