On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 23:11 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 14:05 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > >> > Does anyone actually make laptops that use these bluetooth coexistence > > >> > pins? All CSR bluetooth chips do it automatically I'm told, maybe we > > >> > should just kill them completely. > > >> > > >> Regardless of the wireless card? Or just for bcm? > > > > > > Well just for b43(legacy), but out of curiosity, does any BT chip use > > > these pins anyway? Well I guess _somebody_ has to buy BCMs BT chips, > > > but ... > > > > BCM BT chips? I thought you said CSR? > > Well the thing is, BCM wifi chips have these IO pins that tell the BT > chip what the wifi chip is doing. But CSR chips for instance don't care, > they just check what the wifi chip is doing on the antenna. So those > don't use those IO pins. Marvell SD 8686 have these pins too; I have at least one sample of such a setup. Not that I have had time yet to implement it... but this sort of thing exists of course. Dan > Hence, I'm wondering if there's any use in the IO pins at all. But they > must have added them for a reason, presumably because their own BT chips > can use those inputs... > > Anyway, mostly just idly wondering, since most of the time it works fine > and the EEPROM is actually done right I guess we should keep them on. > > johannes -- 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
