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
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