[PATCH] bcma: add check if sprom is available before accessing it.

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 14 14:43:38 EDT 2011


2011/7/9 Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de>:
> The SoCs like the bcm4716 do not have a sprom on the bcma bus like a
> pcie device. It stores the values in some partition on flash memory.
> For ssb this informations are read out in the bcm47xx arch code,
> something like that should also be implemented for bcma. Without this
> patch bcma panics on SoCs.

Didn't regress my BCM43224 or BCM4313, seems this flag is safe to use,
Broadcom really cares to set it.

Thanks Hauke.

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Rafał



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