On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 13:54 -0600, Larry Finger wrote:

> If I remember correctly (not likely according to my wife), one of the 
> conditions for acceptance of 
> d80211 into the kernel was its ability to coexist with softmac.

Nah, with ieee80211, not softmac.

> Does that mean the bcm43xx-softmac 
> will stay in the kernel even after bcm43xx-d80211 goes mainstream?

No.

> If that is the case, then it 
> won't hurt that 4301 and 4303 won't be supported under d80211. Of course, the 
> maintainer of the 
> softmac version will have to keep up with changes in the d80211 version, but 
> that is essentially the 
> case now. If the softmac version goes out of mainstream, then the maintenance 
> problem is greatly 
> magnified.

That's the problem :)
I think we'll just want to reinstate support for v3 firmware for those
old cards somehow.

johannes

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