Re: bcm43xx regression in 2.6.24 (with patch)

Alexey Zaytsev
2008-02-23T11:52:30Z

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Alexey Zaytsev
> <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The problem is not with enabling both b43 and bcm43xx (will, whis won't work
> > anyway, and there is no chance fixing it). The problem is with enabling the
> > bcm43xx wifi driver and the b44 Ethernet driver. The ethernet driver then
> > wrongly autosolects some config options that prevent the bcm43xx
> > driver from loading, so I'm left with either no wifi or no ethenet.
>
> So does reverting commit 753f492093da7a40141bfe083073400f518f4c68
> ("[B44]: port to native ssb support") fix the regression?
>

Compiling it right now.

I'm sure it fixes the problem, but I don't feel like we should revert
it. I can't
be sure it won't cause any other problems, and anyway, this does not look
right a solution. Any other driver (rightfully) requiring the SSB_HOST would
then also break the bcm43xx driver.

I'll send an simplified patch in a few minutes.