On Friday 23 March 2007 18:37, Larry Finger wrote: > I think we have a plan for the future of bcm43xx-softmac once the > bcm43xx-mac80211 version goes into > mainline. Unfortunately it cannot just be abandoned as there will be no > support for 802.11b-only > devices in bcm43xx-mac80211. > > The steps to be done are as follows: > > 1. Change the namespace from bcm43xx to bcm4301. This will both reflect the > purpose of the changed > driver as well as prevent namespace collisions with the bcm43xx-mac80211 > version in case both are > built into the kernel. > > 2. Modify bcm4301 to use mac80211 rather than softmac. Although this process > has the potential for > introducing bugs into what is currently the stable version, it does allow the > abandonment of softmac > with its deficiencies, many of which are essentially uncorrectable. > > 3. The PCI-ids recognized by bcm4301-mac80211 will be restricted to the > 802.11b-only devices and the > configuration information will be modified. > > Step 1 will be completed very soon and the appropriate patches will be > submitted to Linville's > wireless-dev tree. > > I will be working on step 2 in the coming months and will submit those > patches to the list for > comments and testing. When ready, they too will be submitted to Linville. > Once bcm43xx-mac80211 goes > into mainline, the step 3 patches will be submitted. > > Please comment on this plan.
I ACK this as-is. -- Greetings Michael. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
