2013/2/21 W. Trevor King <wking@xxxxxxxxxx>: > 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? I dislike CONFIG_B43_BCMA_EXTRA from the beginning, it should be selectable as kernel-option according to me. Forcing user to recompile the kernel, just to test a driver, sound like a really poor user-friendliness to me. -- Rafał -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
