[Prism54-devel] PCI IDs

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On 6/17/05, Jean-Baptiste Note <jean-baptiste.note at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> 
> Hello Luis,
> 
> Good to hear from you !

Been a while again, sorry for the delay.

> "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof at gmail.com> said :
> > 0xffff sould not be a valid vendor ID last I checke.d I ran into this
> > on IRC too and I gave something a similar patch. This is just faulty
> > cards!
> 
> The XH8196 driver explicitly mentions this as a vendor ID in the
> code. So at least devel boards can return such an ID.  Maybe cards
> improperly customized by the vendors show this behaviour, anyways they
> do exist, and I suggest we do the workaround needed for having them
> work.

I got my hands on an a dev card and its PCI vendor:device ids are:
1260:ffff. This is a softmac card though -- and the XH8196 driver is
for softmac. I say we leave it out unless we have good evidence of a
card using 0xffff off the shelf.