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

[Michael Buesch]

On Friday 29 February 2008 09:21:19 Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:17:55 +0300 Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Theese two patches fix a problem instroduced in Linux 2.6.24, and
> > still present in the current Linus' 2.6.25 tree.
> > 
> > The bcm43xx Wifi driver won't work any more, if the b44 Ethernet
> > driver is enabled. This happens because the b44 driver
> > needlessly enables the b43_pci_bridge code, which claims
> > the same pci ids as the bcm43xx driver. The b43_pci_bridge
> > code is needed for the b43{legacy} drivers, but for the
> > b44, only the "ssb pci core" is needed.
> 
> Hate to stick my head into this beehive, but...
> 
> I have a patch queued (the-scheduled-bcm43xx-removal.patch) which 
> will remove this driver from 2.6.26.
> 
> Is that bad?

Not at all. The b43 driver from 2.6.26 will work. So there's
no reason to keep bcm43xx.
Alexey just tested a patch that backports the fix to 2.6.24 and it
works fine.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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