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

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On 01/11/2012 02:13 PM, Francis Moreau wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 01/11/2012 12:40 PM, Francis Moreau wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> This has finally been merged and is part of the 3.2 release.
>>>
>>> So now distros don't ship the brcmsmac driver anymore which is
>>> basically the only driver which can handle my card.
>>
>> I am not sure why you come to that conclusion,
> 
> I checked on both OpenSuse and Mandriva, and they both have CONFIG_BCMA=m.
> 
>> For kernel v3.3 the brcmsmac driver will be using bcma.
> 
> Great.
> 
> But v3.2...
> 

Given the configuration BCMA=m I agree that brcmsmac is probably not in
the distro in binary form. However, you can probably install the kernel
source package and rebuilt the kernel with BCMA=n and BRCMSMAC=m.

Gr. AvS

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