[PATCH] Add uevent to bcma bus, to autoload drivers.

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 19 17:17:48 EDT 2011


W dniu 19 sierpnia 2011 22:52 użytkownik David Woodhouse
<dwmw2 at infradead.org> napisał:
> On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 22:13 +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> I can accept sending patch directly to John, if I'm included in CC and
>> linux-wireless is included as well.
>
> But if b43 isn't ready for *some* bcma card, so you don't want it
> autoloading, then perhaps we might have wanted to remove a MODULE_ALIAS
> from b43 to prevent it being autoloaded for just *that* device. Or
> something like that. So even for this "obviously correct" patch I'd
> rather run it by you first.

There is nothing wrong in auto-loading b43 for unsupported card. b43
will detect the PHY type is not supported and will return false from
probing function.

-- 
Rafał



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