> 3. If the port of softmac to mac80211 is merged before
> Michael's driver, it will be known as bcm43xx with
> bcm43xx-mac80211 remaining in wireless-dev.

Renaming a driver always creates madness. For example, even now 
people and projects (e.g. Kismet) refer to "madwifi-ng", but 
there is no madwifi-ng anymore, because this beast has been 
renamed to madwifi.

If possible, use names that can stay. Peoples grey cells, 
projects, and webpages don't then suffer from bitrott.

>
> 4. Once bcm43xx-mac80211 gets merged to mainline, then
> Michael's driver should become bcm43xx and my driver gets its
> PCI IDs stripped to the 802.11b-only devices and once again
> becomes bcm4301. This name change for Michael's driver would
> cause some disruption for current users as their firmware
> would have the wrong name/version. That might be too much of a
> problem.

A gread, even more renames :-(
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