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linux/drivers/staging/brcm80211
Roland Vossen 91769ff844 staging: brcm80211: fix for reported log spam problem
commit 37c962d195 upstream.

Every few minutes, this message would appear in syslog:

ieee80211 ph0: wl_ops_bss_info_changed: BSS idle: true (implement)

The message has been deleted, the driver requires no special action on this
particular event (). See: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38162

Reported-by: David Hill <hilld@binarystorm.net>
Signed-off-by: Roland Vossen <rvossen@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Franky Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@gmx.de>
2011-08-04 21:58:34 -07:00
..
2011-04-04 22:26:18 -07:00
2011-04-04 22:26:18 -07:00

Broadcom brcmsmac (mac80211-based softmac PCIe) and brcmfmac (SDIO) drivers.

Completely open source host drivers, no binary object files.

Support for the following chips:
===============================

    brcmsmac (PCIe)
    Name        Device ID
    BCM4313     0x4727
    BCM43224    0x4353
    BCM43225    0x4357

    brcmfmac (SDIO)
    Name
    BCM4329

Both brcmsmac and brcmfmac drivers require firmware files that need to be
separately downloaded.

Firmware
======================
Firmware is available from the Linux firmware repository at:

    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git
    http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git
    https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git


===============================================================
Broadcom brcmsmac driver
===============================================================
- Support for both 32 and 64 bit Linux kernels


Firmware installation
======================
Copy brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw and brcm/bcm43xx_hdr-0.fw to
/lib/firmware/brcm (or wherever firmware is normally installed
on your system).


===============================================================
Broadcom brcmfmac driver
===============================================================
- Support for 32 bit Linux kernel, 64 bit untested


Firmware installation
======================
Copy brcm/bcm4329-fullmac-4.bin and brcm/bcm4329-fullmac-4.txt
to /lib/firmware/brcm (or wherever firmware is normally installed on your
system).


Contact Info:
=============
Brett Rudley		brudley@broadcom.com
Henry Ptasinski		henryp@broadcom.com
Dowan Kim		dowan@broadcom.com
Roland Vossen		rvossen@broadcom.com
Arend van Spriel	arend@broadcom.com

For more info, refer to: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211