On Thursday 09 August 2007, Larry Finger wrote: > Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 16:52 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > > > >> There will be a problem with the PCI IDs, though. > >> We can't see from the PCI ID if that's a v4 or v5 device. So > >> we have to make _one_ common ssb-pci wrapper and let us probe > >> from ssb, so that either b43 or b43legacy is loaded. > >> I'll take a look to figure out how that works. Shouldn't be > >> too hard. The probing is done through the ssb device table > >> in the driver, where you can put the supported core revs. > > > > For the benefit of those not on IRC, these two patches should be all > > that's needed (untested!) > > > > http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/patches/kernel/ssb-modalias.patch > > http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/patches/kernel/ssb-uevent.patch > > > > The idea will be to strip out the PCI info from both b43 and b43legacy > > and then have those two as ssb-core drivers, put the pci IDs into a > > bridge module that only registers the pci/ssb bridge and then the other > > modules are auto-loaded based on the ssb info. > > Sounds good. I do believe we have a plan. Michael will convert > bcm43xx-mac80211 into bcm43, and I'll > change bcm4301 into bcm43legacy. We will have some patch conflicts over > drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig > and Makefile, so I'll wait for his submissions to propagate through before I > push mine. That will > also give me a chance to see how to use the ssb bridge modules.
Yeah, cool. I'll send the patch later. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
