From: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
To: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@frijolero.org>,
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
"backports@vger.kernel.org" <backports@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] compat-drivers: do not disable bcma when selecting brcmsmac
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 23:07:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51BA349F.90003@hauke-m.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51BA25FD.4000704@broadcom.com>
On 06/13/2013 10:05 PM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 06/13/2013 10:00 PM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>> On 06/13/2013 09:39 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> The brcmsmac driver depends on the bcma bus driver these days. However,
>>>> the driver-select script disabled bcma when selecting brcmsmac (or
>>>> the brcm80211 driver group). This leads to mismatch between kernel
>>>> bcma and backport brcmsmac. For the 3.9 backport this result in:
>>>>
>>>> [10298.323094] brcmsmac: Unknown symbol bcma_pmu_spuravoid_pllupdate
>>>> (err 0)
>>>>
>>>> as this function was added to bcma.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
>>>
>>> Thanks Arend but we're now using a new tree:
>>>
>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/backports.git
>>>
>>> Luis
>>>
>>
>> I was wondering about those, but the twiki still referred to the ones on
>> github. So you mean to say this change is already done in the kernel.org
>> repo?
>>
>> There are a couple of repositories: backports, compat-drivers, and
>> compat. I followed the backports twiki and it does not mention the
>> backports one or did I overlook?
>
> Yikes. cloned that one and I guess you made a major overhaul, right? Any
> pointers, step-by-step instructions, or how-to article to get me started.
I just wrote a wiki page for backports based on an old one for
compat-drivers.
https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Documentation/backports/hacking
Feel free to fix or extend it.
Hauke
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-13 21:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-09 19:37 [PATCH] compat-drivers: do not disable bcma when selecting brcmsmac Arend van Spriel
2013-06-13 19:39 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2013-06-13 20:00 ` Arend van Spriel
2013-06-13 20:05 ` Arend van Spriel
2013-06-13 20:09 ` Johannes Berg
2013-06-13 20:34 ` Arend van Spriel
2013-06-13 20:47 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2013-06-14 8:00 ` Arend van Spriel
2013-06-13 21:07 ` Hauke Mehrtens [this message]
2013-06-13 20:06 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2013-06-13 20:13 ` Arend van Spriel
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