netdev - Re: brcm80211 breakage..

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Date:	Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:46:24 +0100
From:	Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>
To:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
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..

W dniu 12 stycznia 2012 16:39 użytkownik Larry Finger
<Larry.Finger@...inger.net> napisał:
> 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.

Oops, you're right. I forgot bcma doesn't have that (on the difference to ssb).

-- 
Rafał
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