[PATCH][3.16 MAYBE?] b43: don't warn about no 5 GHz support on 2.4 GHz devices

John W. Linville linville at tuxdriver.com
Tue Jul 15 12:30:11 PDT 2014


On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 09:00:19PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> This could be a bit confusing to see warning about lacking support for
> 5 GHz band if your device supports 2.4 GHz only.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>
> ---
> John: even I was quite confused to see this warning on my BCM5357. I
> suspected b43 incorrectly detected my WiFi as 5 GHz capable. I think
> that proposed behavior makes more sense.
> Do you think it's OK/worth to take it for 3.16?

I don't really think it merits prommotion to 3.16.  I am happy to
merge it for -next.

John
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