[RFC][PATCH] b43: replace B43_BCMA_EXTRA with modparam allhwsupport

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 25 11:34:55 EDT 2013


This allows enabling support for extra hardware with just a module
param, without kernel/module recompilation.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig |    6 ------
 drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c  |   16 ++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig
index 3f21e0b..51ff0b1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig
@@ -31,12 +31,6 @@ config B43_BCMA
 	depends on B43 && (BCMA = y || BCMA = B43)
 	default y
 
-config B43_BCMA_EXTRA
-	bool "Hardware support that overlaps with the brcmsmac driver"
-	depends on B43_BCMA
-	default n if BRCMSMAC
-	default y
-
 config B43_SSB
 	bool
 	depends on B43 && (SSB = y || SSB = B43)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
index a95b77a..583993c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
@@ -113,13 +113,19 @@ static int b43_modparam_pio = 0;
 module_param_named(pio, b43_modparam_pio, int, 0644);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(pio, "Use PIO accesses by default: 0=DMA, 1=PIO");
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_BRCMSMAC
+static int modparam_allhwsupport;
+#else
+static int modparam_allhwsupport = 1;
+#endif
+module_param_named(allhwsupport, modparam_allhwsupport, int, 0444);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(allhwsupport, "Enable support for all hardware (even it if overlaps with the brcmsmac driver)");
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_B43_BCMA
 static const struct bcma_device_id b43_bcma_tbl[] = {
 	BCMA_CORE(BCMA_MANUF_BCM, BCMA_CORE_80211, 0x11, BCMA_ANY_CLASS),
-#ifdef CONFIG_B43_BCMA_EXTRA
 	BCMA_CORE(BCMA_MANUF_BCM, BCMA_CORE_80211, 0x17, BCMA_ANY_CLASS),
 	BCMA_CORE(BCMA_MANUF_BCM, BCMA_CORE_80211, 0x18, BCMA_ANY_CLASS),
-#endif
 	BCMA_CORE(BCMA_MANUF_BCM, BCMA_CORE_80211, 0x1D, BCMA_ANY_CLASS),
 	BCMA_CORETABLE_END
 };
@@ -5396,6 +5402,12 @@ static int b43_bcma_probe(struct bcma_device *core)
 	struct b43_wl *wl;
 	int err;
 
+	if (!modparam_allhwsupport &&
+	    (core->id.rev == 0x17 || core->id.rev == 0x18)) {
+		pr_err("Support for cores revisions 0x17 and 0x18 disabled by module param allhwsupport=0. Try b43.allhwsupport=1\n");
+		return -ENOTSUPP;
+	}
+
 	dev = b43_bus_dev_bcma_init(core);
 	if (!dev)
 		return -ENODEV;
-- 
1.7.10.4




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