[PATCH 0/2] ssb: improve device disabling

Larry Finger Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Wed Feb 16 23:21:52 EST 2011


On 02/16/2011 06:50 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> With that patches we follow specs and (as recently proved by MMIO dumps) wl.
>
> The more important patch is the first one. It detects problem (and warns) with
> SSB when it is in some broken state. We can for example hit such an issue when
> enabling DMA on 14e4:4329 (N-PHY, rev 1). The real fix is now known yet, but
> not we at least get warning. Switching to PIO on that card does not raise
> warning anymore (as expected).
>
> We all hate regressions and Michal says than enabling/disabling SSB device can
> be tricky. I have tested that patches with few b43 driven devices:
> 14e4:4318 (BCM4318)
> 14e4:4315 (BCM4312)
> 14e4:4329 (BCM4321)
> 14e4:4328 (BCM4321)
> 14e4:432b (BCM4322)

I tested 14e4:4311 (BCM4311) and found no problems.

Larry



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