BCM4321 support

[Nicolas de Pesloüan]

Le 30/08/2011 01:33, Octavian Voicu a écrit :

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> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian at free.fr
> <mailto:nicolas.2p.debian at free.fr>> wrote:
>
>     The clean way is make deb-pkg from the root of the kernel tree. It will build whatever need to
>     be build (normal build), then build several .deb files you can install using dpkg -i. The normal
>     build takes "normal build time", but building the .deb files takes several minutes. I don't
>     consider this a problem, but...
>
>     The fastest way is to simply make, then copy the changed modules into /lib/modules/..., but from
>     a debian point of view, it is very dirty.
>
>
> Yeah, I guess I prefer the very quick and dirty way. I added them to /lib/modules/.../updates/ and
> ran depmod. Good enough for me. As long as I don't dig too deep in b43 I probably won't need to do
> full kernel builds.
>
> My biggest concern right now is that the modules I build cannot be rmmod-ed after being inserted.
> This happens with any custom built modules, including the dkms built ones (eg. nvidia).

I really suggest you once try building the whole kernel with deb-pkg, then touch a single file in 
b43, then rebuild. The overhead of producing .deb files is not null, but not big enough to stop me 
from rebuilding on every try. And I assume it would solve this module unload issue.

	Nicolas.