From: "Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>
To: "Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"gregkh@suse.de" <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: About the patch: "staging: brcm80211: only enable brcmsmac if bcma is not set"
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:26:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F0D9BF8.7020001@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC9WiBgp02u90rJNC64kKU8GN7jcP_YOSRXSBbR83kHvf3CneQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 01/11/2012 02:13 PM, Francis Moreau wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-11 14:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-08 8:46 About the patch: "staging: brcm80211: only enable brcmsmac if bcma is not set" Francis Moreau
2011-09-12 21:27 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-09-13 7:03 ` Francis Moreau
2011-09-13 13:28 ` John W. Linville
2011-09-13 13:37 ` Francis Moreau
2011-09-13 13:44 ` John W. Linville
2011-09-13 20:25 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-09-14 6:53 ` Francis Moreau
2011-09-14 9:27 ` Arend Van Spriel
2011-09-14 9:11 ` Arend Van Spriel
2011-09-14 9:15 ` Francis Moreau
2011-09-16 7:29 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-09-13 17:44 ` John W. Linville
2011-09-13 18:44 ` Larry Finger
2011-09-13 19:10 ` John W. Linville
2011-09-13 20:23 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-09-14 8:42 ` Greg KH
2011-09-16 10:43 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-09-16 10:52 ` Arend Van Spriel
2011-09-16 10:55 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-09-16 11:13 ` Arend van Spriel
2011-09-16 11:20 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-09-16 11:25 ` Arend van Spriel
2011-09-16 11:34 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-09-14 9:23 ` Arend Van Spriel
2011-09-14 20:18 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-09-15 11:53 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-01-11 11:40 ` Francis Moreau
2012-01-11 12:24 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-01-11 13:13 ` Francis Moreau
2012-01-11 14:26 ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
2012-01-11 14:30 ` Francis Moreau
2012-01-11 15:41 ` Francis Moreau
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