[PATCH v2] Move brcm80211 to mainline

[Henry Ptasinski]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 01:55:26PM -0700, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> 2011/8/25 Henry Ptasinski <henryp at broadcom.com>:
> > With the latest series of cleanup patches merged in by Greg KH, I'd like to
> > once again propose moving brcm80211 out of staging and into mainline.
> 
> Henry: a simple question, please explain it to me, what brcmsmac does
> provide that b43 doesn't?

The brcmsmac driver supports the BCM4313, BCM43224, and BCM43225 chipsets with
full performance i.e. rate vs. range comparable to what's achived with these
chips running under other operating systems.

The underlying phy algorithms, especially the dynamic calibrations, have been
designed and tested, over the full range of chip operating temperatures, and
across fabrication process corners, to maximize the performance acheived in all
cases.

The driver is fully supported by Broadcom, and provides an API for addition of
phy support for newer chipsets that will help speed up the process of getting
support for those chipsets into the kernel.

- Henry