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Re: About the patch: "staging: brcm80211: only enable brcmsmac if bcma is not set"

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On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 03:37:12PM +0200, Francis Moreau wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 3:28 PM, John W. Linville
> <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 09:03:13AM +0200, Francis Moreau wrote:
> >> 2011/9/12 Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> >> > The real solution is to add bcma driver support in brcmsmac and ssb
> >> > driver support in brcmfmac. Then you can always use bcma and:
> >> > 1) If b43 will load and detect unsupported PHY, it will release the BCMA's core
> >> > 2) brcmsmac will be loaded to let it support the core
> >> >
> >>
> >> Thanks for the description.
> >>
> >> But what should be done for the time being (3.1-rc5) ?
> >
> > Turn-off CONFIG_B43_BCMA.
> >
> 
> Does the b43/bcma driver support some cards that the brcmsmac one doesn't ?

Not any BCMA-based ones.

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