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On 04/03/2012 07:05 AM, Chester wrote:
> And this is when I curse at all the google results that say "blacklist
> bcma" ... brcmsmac DEPENDS on bcma /facepalms and goes to sleep..

brcmsmac changed basically from a pci device driver to a bcma device 
driver. So before 3.3 it was good to blacklist bcma to avoid it from 
claiming the device away from brcmsmac.

For 3.3, brcmsmac relies on bcma indeed.

Gr. AvS