[PATCH 1/4] b43: N-PHY: update init tables

Larry Finger Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Tue Dec 7 15:00:35 EST 2010


On 12/07/2010 01:49 PM, ikorot at earthlink.net wrote:
>> One reason is that these tables changed from non-zero to zero values between
>> Broadcom driver 4.174.64.19 and 5.10.56.46. As they might change again, I think
>> we should retain the full version.
> 
> Is there a way to check for version of the driver?
> This way whoever uses old one won't be screwed...

That will not be a problem as no older version of b43 works at all with b43. To
help you understand this change, when the 4.174.64.19 Broadcom driver was
reverse-engineered, the tables had non-zero values. Rafel later compared the
trace dumps of b43 with the latest version of wl and found that the values are
now zero. When I rechecked driver 5.10.56.46, I found them to be zero there as
well and changed the specs.

Larry



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