Message-ID: <51261C0B.1040506@hauke-m.de> (sfid-20130221_140744_032982_15FA607B)
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:07:23 +0100
From: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
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To: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>
CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: rev-17 Broadcom core support in b43 and CONFIG_B43_BCMA_EXTRA
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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 
> around device detection.  Obviously, b43 and brcmsmac both support 
> 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?

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.

Hauke
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