[PATCH v2] Move brcm80211 to mainline

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 05:35:13PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:55:26PM +0200, 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?
> >
> 
> Wow.  Why are we only having this discussion now?  Somewhere along
> the line, there has been a massive communications failure.  What
> happened here?  Henry, did you know about the b43 driver?  Can
> someone explain what's going on?

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?

greg k-h