From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Larry Finger Subject: Re: brcm80211 breakage.. Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:39:13 -0600 Message-ID: <4F0EFEA1.9000907@lwfinger.net> References: <4F0D6806.4080201@broadcom.com> <4F0DC030.6090500@lwfinger.net> <4F0E3B7E.8040005@lwfinger.net> <4F0E5E57.9060204@lwfinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Linus Torvalds , Arend van Spriel , "John W. Linville" , Network Development , "Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" To: =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= Return-path: Received: from mail-iy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:37726 "EHLO mail-iy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753965Ab2ALPjR (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:39:17 -0500 Received: by iabz25 with SMTP id z25so2886080iab.19 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:39:17 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 01/12/2012 01:08 AM, Rafa=C5=82 Mi=C5=82ecki wrote: > 2012/1/12 Linus Torvalds: >> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Linus Torvalds >> wrote: >>> >>> Maybe your BIOS firmware sets things up, and the Apple Macbook Air >>> doesn't? And the driver used to initialize things sufficiently, and >>> the changes have broken that? >> >> The code in v3.2 also used to support srom rev< 4, the new code >> doesn't seem to do that. > > After hacking bcma to read SPROM from the correct location, what did > you get in dmesg? There should be info about version of SPROM. In the bcma version of the SPROM reading, there is no error logging oth= er than=20 the incorrect version message. In particular, there is no message when = the CRC=20 test fails, and the version will not be logged. Larry