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

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On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:27:20PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:

> The problem is that brcmsmac duplicates code present in the bcma
> driver. It doesn't use bcma bus architecture.
> 
> 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

We are going to have to find a way to get brcmsmac into the
wireless-next tree to make it feasible for the Broadcom guys to get
bcma support into that driver.  Do you agree?

We could move it under the drivers/net/wireless tree.  Or, maybe I
could negotiate with Greg to keep it under the drivers/staging tree
but to let me manage it under wireless-next.  Or...?  Do you have
any thoughts on this?

John
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