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
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John W. Linville
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