On Thursday 22 March 2007 22:09, Larry Finger wrote:
> Based on Michael's comments, I think it would be easier to teach 
> bcm43xx-softmac to work with
> mac80211 than it would be to put V3 firmware back in bcm43xx-mac80211. Do you 
> agree Michael?

Putting v3 support into bcm43xx-mac80211 is not an option.
Porting bcm43xx-sm to mac80211 is an option. It's not too hard.

> Incidentally, I have just demonstrated that bcm43xx-softmac and 
> bcm43xx-mac80211 can coexist in the
> same kernel as long as the PCI-id is unique. In this way, we have a migration 
> route that lets us
> defer any changes until sometime after mac80211 goes mainline. All we have to 
> do is remove the A and
> G PHY ids from softmac. The ids for B PHYs are already removed from 
> bcm43xx-mac80211.

Please change the name(space) of bcm43xx-sm to bcm4301. Makes it _much_ more
clear which hardware is supported by this driver.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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