On Thursday 09 August 2007 16:09:53 Larry Finger wrote: > 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
Feel free to drop the -. I think b43legacy is even better (to type, to read, it's shorter..) -- Greetings Michael. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
