[PATCH] ssb: Ignore dangling ethernet cores on wireless devices

Gábor Stefanik netrolller.3d at gmail.com
Wed Nov 9 06:50:21 EST 2011


On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 12:14 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 19:48 +0100, Michael Büsch wrote:
>>
>> +               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;
>
> Do you also need to check for (bus->host_pci->device / 1000) == 43?
> Or do the chips with 5-digit 'decimal' IDs not have the Ethernet cores?
>
> Would it be better to invert the test and check for != 0x4400?

I do not know of any Broadcom wireless device with a decimal PCI ID
(as opposed to a decimal Chip ID).

>
> --
> dwmw2
>



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