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Patch "b43: fix support for 14e4:4321 PCI dev with BCM4321 chipset" has been added to the 4.0-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    b43: fix support for 14e4:4321 PCI dev with BCM4321 chipset

to the 4.0-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:

     b43-fix-support-for-14e4-4321-pci-dev-with-bcm4321-chipset.patch

and it can be found in the queue-4.0 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From 90f91b129810c3f169e443252be30ed7c0130326 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2015 22:45:59 +0200
Subject: b43: fix support for 14e4:4321 PCI dev with BCM4321 chipset
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From: Rafał Miłecki <[email protected]>

commit 90f91b129810c3f169e443252be30ed7c0130326 upstream.

It seems Broadcom released two devices with conflicting device id. There are for sure 14e4:4321 PCI devices with BCM4321 (N-PHY) chipset, they can be found in routers, e.g. Netgear WNR834Bv2. However, according to Broadcom public sources 0x4321 is also used for 5 GHz BCM4306 (G-PHY). It's unsure if they meant PCI device id, or "virtual" id (from SPROM). To distinguish these devices lets check PHY type (G vs. N).

---
 drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c +4 -0
@@ -5365,6 +5365,10 @@ static void b43_supported_bands(struct b
 		*have_5ghz_phy = true;
 		return;
 	case 0x4321: /* BCM4306 */
+		/* There are 14e4:4321 PCI devs with 2.4 GHz BCM4321 (N-PHY) */
+		if (dev->phy.type != B43_PHYTYPE_G)
+			break;
+		/* fall through */
 	case 0x4313: /* BCM4311 */
 	case 0x431a: /* BCM4318 */
 	case 0x432a: /* BCM4321 */

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.0/b43-fix-support-for-14e4-4321-pci-dev-with-bcm4321-chipset.patch