[PATCH v2] Move brcm80211 to mainline

Sat Aug 27 09:41:22 PDT 2011

Greg KH <gregkh at suse.de> wrote:

> I always thought that b43 and the staging driver supported different
> devices and had no overlap, which is why I had no problem with it.
> 
> Was I totally mistaken and got this wrong?

There are *three* drivers for the 'same' hw:
wl(proprietary), brcmsmac(staging) and b43(kernel)

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#bcm43xx.2C_b43legacy.2C_b43.2C_softmac.2C..._the_full_story

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Supported_devices