netdev - Re: brcm80211 breakage..

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Message-ID: <4F0EFEA1.9000907@lwfinger.net>
Date:	Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:39:13 -0600
From:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:	Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" <frankyl@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: brcm80211 breakage..

On 01/12/2012 01:08 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> 2012/1/12 Linus Torvalds<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>:
>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Linus Torvalds
>> <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>  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 other than 
the incorrect version message. In particular, there is no message when the CRC 
test fails, and the version will not be logged.

Larry


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