Re: Odd behavior of ssb, b43, b43legacy, and b44

["Michael Büsch" <mb@bu3sch.de>]

On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 22:31 -0600, Larry Finger wrote: 
> On 01/06/2011 09:34 PM, Michael Büsch wrote:
> > 
> > Does one of these wireless cards have a dangling ethernet core? I would
> > not be surprised...
> 
> Yes. The core scan for the BCM4303 is as follows:
> 
> ssb: Core 0 found: IEEE 802.11 (cc 0x812, rev 0x02, vendor 0x4243)
> ssb: Core 1 found: PCMCIA (cc 0x80D, rev 0x00, vendor 0x4243)
> ssb: Core 2 found: Fast Ethernet (cc 0x806, rev 0x02, vendor 0x4243)
> ssb: Core 3 found: V90 (cc 0x807, rev 0x01, vendor 0x4243)
> ssb: Core 4 found: PCI (cc 0x804, rev 0x03, vendor 0x4243)
> ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:01:09.0
> 
> Larry
> 

Can you please try this patch?


Index: linux-2.6.37/drivers/ssb/scan.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.37.orig/drivers/ssb/scan.c	2011-01-07 15:35:10.518000002 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.37/drivers/ssb/scan.c	2011-01-07 15:45:54.231998930 +0100
@@ -420,6 +420,16 @@
 			bus->pcicore.dev = dev;
 #endif /* CONFIG_SSB_DRIVER_PCICORE */
 			break;
+		case SSB_DEV_ETHERNET:
+			if (bus->bustype == SSB_BUSTYPE_PCI) {
+				if (bus->host_pci->vendor == PCI_VENDOR_ID_BROADCOM &&
+				    (bus->host_pci->device & 0xFF00) == 0x4300) {
+					/* This is a dangling ethernet core on a
+					 * wireless device. Ignore it. */
+					continue;
+				}
+			}
+			break;
 		default:
 			break;
 		}


-- 
Greetings Michael.