From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Cc: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
"Network Development" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" <frankyl@broadcom.com>,
"Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>,
"Larry Finger" <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Subject: Re: brcm80211 breakage..
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:15:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1326302130.2705.3.camel@bwh-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F0D6806.4080201@broadcom.com>
On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 11:44 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 01/10/2012 09:15 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > So the wireless on my Macbook Air no longer seems to work with the
> > current -git tree.
> >
> > The BRCMSMAC driver *used* to work, and no longer does. Also, very
> > annoyingly, it's even hard to *compile* the thing, because it used to
> > be
> >
> > depends on BCMA=n
> >
> > but now it is the exact reverse:
> >
> > depends on BCMA
> >
> > so there is no sane way to carry a configuration over from before, and
> > things like bisection is a major pain due to having to play idiotic
> > configuration games to get it to work across all these modifications.
>
> BCMA support has been added to brcmsmac so now we depend on it. As BCMA
> claims the PCI device we had the BCMA=n in place before. I agree that it
> makes bisecting a pain in the...
[...]
Maybe BRCMSMAC should select BCMA rather than depending on it. This bus
seems like kind of an implementation detail that people are unlikely to
be aware of, unlike say PCI.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-11 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-10 20:15 brcm80211 breakage Linus Torvalds
2012-01-11 10:44 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-01-11 15:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-11 16:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-11 17:00 ` Larry Finger
2012-01-12 1:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-12 1:46 ` Larry Finger
2012-01-12 1:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-12 2:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-12 4:15 ` Larry Finger
2012-01-12 5:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-12 5:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-12 7:08 ` Rafał Miłecki
2012-01-12 7:10 ` Rafał Miłecki
2012-01-12 7:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-12 15:39 ` Larry Finger
2012-01-12 15:46 ` Rafał Miłecki
2012-01-12 7:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-12 7:18 ` Rafał Miłecki
2012-01-12 7:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-12 10:03 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-01-12 15:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-12 19:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-12 19:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-12 20:09 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-01-12 20:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-12 20:36 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-01-12 22:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-12 22:42 ` Rafał Miłecki
2012-01-12 22:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-12 23:04 ` Rafał Miłecki
2012-01-13 0:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-13 2:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-13 5:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-13 6:50 ` Rafał Miłecki
2012-01-13 6:57 ` Rafał Miłecki
2012-01-13 7:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-13 7:41 ` [PATCH] bcma: s&r: NULL mapped core Rafał Miłecki
2012-01-13 7:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-13 7:59 ` [0/5] bcma/brcmsmac suspend/resume cleanups and fixes Linus Torvalds
2012-01-13 8:00 ` [PATCH 1/5] bcma: convert suspend/resume to pm_ops Linus Torvalds
2012-01-13 9:58 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-01-13 10:01 ` Rafał Miłecki
2012-01-13 8:00 ` [PATCH 2/5] bcma: add stub for bcma_bus suspend() Linus Torvalds
2012-01-13 8:01 ` [PATCH 3/5] bcma: connect the bcma bus suspend/resume to the bcma driver suspend/resume Linus Torvalds
2012-01-13 8:01 ` [PATCH 4/5] brcmsmac: remove PCI suspend/resume from bcma driver Linus Torvalds
2012-01-13 9:59 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-01-13 8:02 ` [PATCH 5/5] bcma: invalidate the mapped window over suspend/resume Linus Torvalds
2012-01-13 10:03 ` [0/5] bcma/brcmsmac suspend/resume cleanups and fixes Rafał Miłecki
2012-01-13 16:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-13 11:06 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-01-13 16:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-14 3:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-14 12:22 ` Dominique Martinet
2012-01-14 14:34 ` Rafał Miłecki
2012-01-14 15:07 ` Dominique Martinet
2012-01-14 19:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-14 23:08 ` Dominique Martinet
2012-01-14 23:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-14 17:36 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-01-16 14:00 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-01-16 17:33 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-01-17 1:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-17 10:37 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-01-19 9:42 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-01-19 12:12 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-01-19 16:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-13 7:13 ` brcm80211 breakage Linus Torvalds
2012-01-12 19:46 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-01-13 1:53 ` Larry Finger
2012-01-31 12:08 ` Henrik Rydberg
2012-01-31 17:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-31 19:08 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-01-31 19:25 ` John W. Linville
2012-01-31 19:35 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-01-31 19:58 ` Henrik Rydberg
2012-01-31 20:21 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-01-31 22:23 ` Henrik Rydberg
2012-01-31 19:36 ` Henrik Rydberg
2012-01-31 19:49 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-01-12 13:13 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-01-12 16:22 ` Larry Finger
2012-01-12 17:18 ` Larry Finger
2012-01-12 17:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-12 17:44 ` Larry Finger
2012-01-11 21:01 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-01-12 0:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-11 17:15 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2012-01-12 0:10 ` Linus Torvalds
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