Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:46:38 -0500
From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>
To: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	b43-dev@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: rev-17 Broadcom core support in b43 and CONFIG_B43_BCMA_EXTRA
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 02:07:23PM +0100, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> On 02/21/2013 01:17 PM, W. Trevor King wrote:
> > I've been poking around in b43 and brcmsmac trying to wrap my head=20
> > around device detection.  Obviously, b43 and brcmsmac both support=20
> > some devices, and since 4f3d09d (b43: add option to avoid
> > duplicating device support with brcmsmac, 2012-01-11) overlapping
> > devices have been masked behind CONFIG_B43_BCMA_EXTRA.  At the time
> > of that commit, brcmsmac didn't support the r17 cores, but support
> > has since been added in 6f80f01 (brcmsmac: add support for cores
> > with revision 17, 2012-12-07).  Does that mean that b43 should move
> > the r17 core entry into the masked-by-CONFIG_B43_BCMA_EXTRA block?
>=20
> Yes you could move that core id into the CONFIG_B43_BCMA_EXTRA block,
> but this core was just found on Router SoCs and there you mostly want
> to use AP mode, which brcmsmac does not support.

So maybe a CONFIG_BRCM_BCMA_EXTRA to mask brcmsmac devices when b43 is
the recommended module?

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