[PATCH v2] Move brcm80211 to mainline

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 27 15:12:36 UTC 2011


W dniu 27 sierpnia 2011 17:08 użytkownik Rafał Miłecki
<zajec5 at gmail.com> napisał:
> 2011/8/27 Greg KH <gregkh at suse.de>:
>> 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?
>
> Please see my last e-mail in this thread for history overview.
>
> Right now the only card that is supported by brcmsmac and is not
> supported by b43 is 14e4:4727. That card is based on PHY type LCN, and
> I'm working on adding support for it in b43.
>
> Other cards supported by brcmsmac (14e4:4353, 14e4:4357) are supported
> by b43.

b43 also works on SoCs (routers) using BCMA and having BCMA core based
on N-PHY. This support was added by Hauke and I think he reported AP
mode was somehow working for him. AFAIR it wasn't stable yet, but some
packets were transferred :)

-- 
Rafał



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