On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 02:09:47PM -0700, Rafał Miłecki wrote:

Also what about embedded devices? Shouldn't we have core drivers for
them? I mean, to be able to easily choose driver for a given core?

Let's say I want to use some ssb-core-based driver for Ethernet port
(like gige) but I also want to use brcmsmac fo 80211. Is that possible
without brcmsmac using bcma?

Since brcmsmac doesn't attempt to claim any ssb-based devices, why would there
be any conflict between an ssb-based Ethernet device and a brcmsmac device?

The ssb driver claims the ssb-based devices, and brcmsmac only claims the
AI-based chips that it supports.

There is currently a conflict between bcma and brcmsmac (hence the restriction
in drivers/staging/brcm80211/Kconfig), but, as I've said several times, we want
to move to using bcma as soon as possible.  But we need to work with the
current version of bcma, which isn't available in staging.

- Henry