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

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