Odd behavior of ssb, b43, b43legacy, and b44
Michael Büsch
mb at bu3sch.de
Fri Jan 7 09:45:55 EST 2011
On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 22:31 -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 01/06/2011 09:34 PM, Michael Büsch wrote:
> >
> > Does one of these wireless cards have a dangling ethernet core? I would
> > not be surprised...
>
> Yes. The core scan for the BCM4303 is as follows:
>
> ssb: Core 0 found: IEEE 802.11 (cc 0x812, rev 0x02, vendor 0x4243)
> ssb: Core 1 found: PCMCIA (cc 0x80D, rev 0x00, vendor 0x4243)
> ssb: Core 2 found: Fast Ethernet (cc 0x806, rev 0x02, vendor 0x4243)
> ssb: Core 3 found: V90 (cc 0x807, rev 0x01, vendor 0x4243)
> ssb: Core 4 found: PCI (cc 0x804, rev 0x03, vendor 0x4243)
> ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:01:09.0
>
> Larry
>
Can you please try this patch?
Index: linux-2.6.37/drivers/ssb/scan.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.37.orig/drivers/ssb/scan.c 2011-01-07 15:35:10.518000002 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.37/drivers/ssb/scan.c 2011-01-07 15:45:54.231998930 +0100
@@ -420,6 +420,16 @@
bus->pcicore.dev = dev;
#endif /* CONFIG_SSB_DRIVER_PCICORE */
break;
+ case SSB_DEV_ETHERNET:
+ if (bus->bustype == SSB_BUSTYPE_PCI) {
+ if (bus->host_pci->vendor == PCI_VENDOR_ID_BROADCOM &&
+ (bus->host_pci->device & 0xFF00) == 0x4300) {
+ /* This is a dangling ethernet core on a
+ * wireless device. Ignore it. */
+ continue;
+ }
+ }
+ break;
default:
break;
}
--
Greetings Michael.
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