[PATCH v2] Move brcm80211 to mainline

[Rafał Miłecki]

W dniu 30 sierpnia 2011 11:28 użytkownik Michael Büsch <m at bues.ch> napisał:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:31:08 +0200
> Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I got lost. You're talking a lot about ucode, but I don't know what do
>> you really mean. Do you have some additional info from Broadcom? Are
>> they going to release some new ucode not compatible with some older
>> cards?
>
> They do so frequently and always did this.
> The problem in b43 is, that b43 needs to support _all_ ucode
> APIs from 5 to x (Dunno where we are right now. somewhere > 15).
> That was relatively easy until now, because the API didn't vary a lot
> between cores. I don't know what will/did change for latest wireless
> features, though. But you already applied some changes to the affecting
> code. I don't know how complete that stuff is.

But it sounds pretty, well, stupid, to split Broadcom support into 2
drivers basing on SSB vs. BCMA architecture, if this is just a pure
guess that Broadcom is going to release updated firmware for BCMA
devices only.
The split done by Broadcom could be done anywhere, it could be HT vs.
LCN or LCN vs. LCNXN, we never know what will happen. Let's first wait
for Broadcom to release new firmware not compatible with older
devices, then we can think about any driver split.

-- 
Rafał