From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Alexey Zaytsev <zaytsev.a@protei.ru>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bcm43xx regression in 2.6.24 (with patch)
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:13:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802221513.58608.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47BEAF3B.3080809@protei.ru>
On Friday 22 February 2008 12:17:15 Alexey Zaytsev wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> The bcm43xx driver won't work any more, if the b44 Ethernet
> driver is enabled. This happens because the b44 driver
> needlessly enables the b43_pci_bridge code, which claims
> the same pci ids as the bcm43xx driver. The b43_pci_bridge
> code is needed for the b43{legacy} drivers, but for the
> b44, only the "ssb pci core" is needed.
>
> This patch separates the ssb b43 pci bridge and the ssb pci
> core config options and enables only the needed ones.
Nack. Switch to b43. bcm43xx is going to be removed anyway.
I'm not going to play these kconfig SELECT tricks anymore.
We had _lots_ of bugs there. People submitted patches that
obviously looked OK and still they turned out to break
some dependencies. KConfig SELECT is a feature from hell.
--
Greetings Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-22 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-22 11:17 bcm43xx regression in 2.6.24 (with patch) Alexey Zaytsev
2008-02-22 14:13 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2008-02-22 17:51 ` Gabriel C
2008-02-22 17:56 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-22 22:10 ` Greg KH
2008-02-22 18:10 ` Alexey Zaytsev
2008-02-22 17:48 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-22 20:06 ` Alexey Zaytsev
2008-02-22 20:12 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-22 20:38 ` Alexey Zaytsev
2008-02-22 22:12 ` Greg KH
2008-02-22 22:45 ` Alexey Zaytsev
2008-02-23 5:48 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-23 11:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-23 11:18 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-02-23 11:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-23 11:32 ` Alexey Zaytsev
2008-02-23 11:37 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-02-23 11:51 ` Alexey Zaytsev
2008-02-23 11:57 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-02-23 12:17 ` Alexey Zaytsev
2008-02-23 12:23 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-02-24 14:29 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-24 16:39 ` Alexey Zaytsev
2008-02-24 17:16 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-25 6:16 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-02-25 6:49 ` Greg KH
2008-02-25 6:54 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-02-25 9:54 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-25 12:11 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-02-25 12:19 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-25 12:25 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-02-25 13:00 ` Alexey Zaytsev
2008-02-25 10:23 ` Alexey Zaytsev
2008-02-25 10:38 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-25 10:49 ` Xavier Bestel
2008-02-25 10:54 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-23 16:05 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-23 16:27 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-23 16:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-23 16:50 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-23 21:32 ` Alexey Zaytsev
2008-02-23 22:20 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-26 20:20 ` John W. Linville
2008-02-26 21:38 ` Alexey Zaytsev
2008-02-26 22:04 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-26 22:12 ` Alexey Zaytsev
2008-02-26 22:41 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-28 22:03 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-28 22:48 ` Alexey Zaytsev
2008-02-28 23:12 ` Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
2008-02-29 23:22 ` Alexey Zaytsev
2008-02-28 23:14 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-26 22:47 ` John W. Linville
2008-02-26 23:12 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-27 0:23 ` Alexey Zaytsev
2008-02-27 0:27 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-27 0:32 ` Alexey Zaytsev
2008-02-27 0:43 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-27 0:53 ` Alexey Zaytsev
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