John W. Linville wrote: > 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?
With mac80211's use of V4 firmware, none of the 802.11b interfaces will be supported, and I think they should. I'm not planning on any improvements. Only interface changes will be implemented. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
