On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:23:39AM -0700, Brett Rudley wrote: > > > But we haven't released much bmac code yet, primarily because > > > weren't/aren't sure how to support multiple drivers for a single chip. > > > (Basically, which driver should get loaded?) > > > > Why would you ever want to do that? Why wouldn't you just use softmac > > like other wireless drivers in the kernel? > > Power consumption. The fullmac dongle can offload the host cpu of > significant numbers of interrupts and packets and processing (like > preferred networks, arp offload, etc). This lets the host system to > stay in low power mode longer than a softmac model where the cpu has > to wake out of low power state more frequently and burn through your > cell phone battery that much faster. > > Many of our customers demand this offload model vs host cpu intensive > model. Ok, fair enough. Now you need to figure out how to clean up the code properly to handle this type of indecision :) good luck, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
