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Bug#664767: Brcmsmac driver woes, possible regression?



On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 16:25 +0200, Camaleón wrote:
> El 2012-05-22 a las 16:18 -0500, Jonathan Nieder escribió:
> 
> > Thanks again for your patience.  Could you try the attached patch
> > series against a 3.2.18-based kernel (like the one from kernel.org or
> > from sid)?
> 
> (...)
> 
> Downloaded the sid kernel sources, applied the 23 patches, compiled the 
> whole kernel, generated a deb file and installed but brcmsmac module 
> seems to be missing and whatever I add at the .config file does not 
> resurrect the module. And I don't remember what I did the last time nor 
> if something has changed (again) in this regard O:-)
> 
> Any hint? What's the magic line to get brcmsmac back in this kernel 
> version?

I wonder whether you really built from the Debian-patched sources (by
running debian/bin/test-patches or debian/rules build or similar) or the
upstream source.

In Linux 3.2 you can enable either CONFIG_BCMA (bcma bus driver,
supporting the b43 driver) or CONFIG_BRCMSMAC (brcmsmac driver) but not
both.  Debian has a patch that resolves this conflict, and they are both
enabled.  However, if you don't apply that patch then you need to make
sure CONFIG_BCMA is disabled before you can enable CONFIG_BRCMSMAC.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
You can't have everything.  Where would you put it?

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