netdev - Re: brcm80211 breakage..

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Date:	Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:10:45 -0800
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" <frankyl@...adcom.com>,
	Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
Subject: Re: brcm80211 breakage..

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Ben Hutchings
<bhutchings@...arflare.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Yes, please. This is exactly the kind of thing "select" exists for.
Asking the user about some crazy proprietary broadcom bus interface is
useless, since no sane user should ever know or care about that kind
of thing.

                         Linus
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