On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 06:57:00PM -0400, Jeff Mahoney wrote: The
brcmsmac driver requests firmware but doesn't document the 
dependency. This means that software that analyzes the modules to 
determine if firmware is needed won't detect it.

Specifically, (at least) openSUSE won't install the
kernel-firmware package if no hardware requires it.

This patch adds the MODULE_FIRMWARE directives.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <redacted> --- 
drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c |    4 +++- 1
file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c +++

b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c @@ -86,7
+86,9 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Broadcom Corporation"); 
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Broadcom 802.11n wireless LAN driver."); 
MODULE_SUPPORTED_DEVICE("Broadcom 802.11n WLAN cards"); 
MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL"); - +/* This needs to be adjusted
when brcms_firmwares changes */ 
+MODULE_FIRMWARE("brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw"); 
+MODULE_FIRMWARE("brcm/bcm43xx_hdr-0.fw");

/* recognized BCMA Core IDs */ static struct bcma_device_id
brcms_coreid_table[] = {

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