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From"Rafael J. Wysocki" <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex
DateSun, 16 Dec 2007 00:26:19 +0100
On Saturday, 15 of December 2007, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 02:25:50AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Friday, 14 of December 2007, Michael Buesch wrote:
>
> > > Either distributions have to install it automatically or people simply have
> > > to read one or two lines of documentation. That's just what I wanted to say.
> >
> > It's not that simple. For example, regression testing will be a major PITA
> > if one needs to switch back and forth from the new driver to the old one in the
> > process.
>
> Not really true -- a single system can easily have firmware installed
> for b43, b43legacy, and bcm43xx at the same time and switch back and
> forth between them.
>
> Given a functioning udev configuration, the persistent naming even
> works so that your device stays as 'eth1' when switching to and
> fro bcm43xx.

Well, this last bit doesn't work on my openSUSE 10.3. Honest, guv. ;-)

> I really think everyone is overstating the problem.

You might be right.

Greetings,
Rafael



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