[PATCH 00/20] staging: brcm80211: 7th reaction for mainline patch #2

[Brett Rudley]

> You guys obviously don't want to support legacy hardware. So there is
> absolutely
> no way to drop b43 in favor of brcmsmac. That is _impossible_.
> And I do agree that it would be completely insane for you guys to support
> the legacy
> b43 802.11g code.
> 
> The other way around, dropping brcmsmac in favor of b43 would be insanely
> stupid, too.
> It would basically be dropping broadcom-linux-wlan support. Nobody wants
> that.

Agree and we are not proposing that.

We did however initially propose (and implement) a dividing line of ssb chips for b43 and AXI based chips for brcmsmac but b43 team chose to ignore/reject that.  I haven't heard any counter-proposal from b43. We would love to hear one.

> I do, however, think that a separate broadcom-supported PHY module should
> be created,
> that is used by both brcmsmac and b43.

I'm not totally opposed to that idea but it does not solve the primary issue of conflicting b43 and brcmsmac modules.

Brett