On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 02:44:13PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 19:20 +1100, Geoff Simmons wrote: > > Enabling these would allow the b43 driver to receive BCMA bus support > > (B43_BCMA, enabled by default) and operate Broadcom BCM43224 and > > BCM43225 based PCIe wireless LAN devices; BCM4331 (HT-PHY) support is > > anticipated for Linux 3.2. > > > > A consequence of enabling BCMA_HOST_PCI is the addition of device IDs to > > the produced bcma module, four of these are claimed by the brcmsmac part > > of the brcm80211 staging driver. > > brcmsmac apparently has better support for these devices, and is moving > out of staging in 3.2. > > So whatever we do, we shouldn't enable those device IDs in b43 as well.
OK. Could only the BCM4331 device ID (14e4:4331) be referenced in bcma/host_pci.c as an alternative? This device is found in the MacBookPro8,1/2/3 and TTBOMK is not currently supported by brcmsmac (per "recognized PCI IDs" in brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c) or the out-of-tree broadcom-sta driver. Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
