On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:34:52AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 23:22 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > > Pavel Roskin wrote: > > > > > > Maybe we could have a git repository for the softmac driver? That would > > > make it easy to generate new patches. git is quite good an resolving > > > such conflicts. > > > > We already have one - it is Linville's wireless-2.6 git tree. My patches > > are just for those who > > choose not to download a complete git system. > > Oh, I see. > > Although it's unfortunate that I cannot test dadwifi and bcm43xx on the > same kernel. It's quite bad, especially on the slow G3 PowerMac.
Why not? The wireless-dev kernel still has the softmac bcm43xx driver, as well as the mac80211-based bcm43xx driver. > > We will need one for the day when mac80211 replaces softmac in the mainline > > kernel. What would we > > need to do? Why? What value do you predict in having an out-of-tree softmac version available? Would that effort be better spent on improving the in-tree mac80211 version? John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
