[PATCH] bcm53xx: disable NVMEM driver

Rafał Miłecki rafal at milecki.pl
Tue Aug 1 05:16:19 PDT 2023


On 2023-08-01 12:42, Arınç ÜNAL wrote:
> The NVMEM_BRCM_NVRAM driver won't work properly with NVRAM in NAND. It
> causes the devices with NVRAM in NAND, such as ASUS RT-AC88U, to 
> bootloop.
> Until the driver is fixed, disable it.

Driver works and it useful for non-NAND devices. By disabling it you
regress those devices. Surely this can be handled better.


> Disable NVMEM too as the bgmac_bcma driver will hang trying to retrieve 
> the
> MAC address without NVMEM_BRCM_NVRAM enabled.

This would be nice to fix instead hiding the bug.



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