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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