[PATCH v2] Move brcm80211 to mainline

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 26 19:45:13 UTC 2011


W dniu 26 sierpnia 2011 19:55 użytkownik Henry Ptasinski
<henryp at broadcom.com> napisał:
> 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.

Out of curiosity, do you *really* already support 40 MHz channels in brcmsmac?

According to http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211 you don't...

-- 
Rafał



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