Re: [PATCH] Fix the bcm43xx driver breakage in 2.6.24/25.

[John W. Linville]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:58:33PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 February 2008 21:15:50 John W. Linville wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 09:26:34AM -0700, Larry Finger wrote:
> > 
> > > I have reviewed the above patches and tested them with what I believe to be 
> > > most combinations. Everything worked and corrected the unintended 
> > > consequence of breaking bcm43xx when b44 is included. I agree that these 
> > > patches belong in 2.6.25 and stable (2.6.24). Of course, the problem goes 
> > > away in 2.6.26.
> > 
> > I can't say I really like Alexey's patches, but I guess they are OK.
> > I think I like the "b43_pci_bridge as a module" option a little better,
> > but as Michael illustrated there are problems with that approach too.
> 
> Well, I do like  "b43_pci_bridge as a module" more than this inter-dependency
> crap. Yeah, I don't like "b43_pci_bridge as a module" a lot, but certainly
> more than Alexey's patch.

Patches welcome... :-)

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