Michael Buesch wrote: > It turns out that it's better to extend the device > support in bcm4301 due to more difficulties in reverse > engineering the newer bcm drivers. > Newer drivers don't contain support for wireless core ref < 5 > anymore. So I suggest we support <5 devices with the legacy > driver using v3 firmware. And anything above with v4 firmware > with upstream bcm43xx-mac80211. > That's actually a nice cutoff point, as rev 5 is when they > started using the new microcode format. > > So, that said, I want to rename all the drivers. > My plan was to rename "bcm43xx-mac80211" to "b43", so > you could probably rename bcm4301 to b43-legacy or something > shorter like b43-leg or maybe even b43-old. > > Any comments? >
I like the idea of b43 and b43-legacy. As a "senior citizen", I'm beginning to dislike the adjective "old", and "leg" isn't that descriptive. What time frame do you envision this change taking place? Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
