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

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W dniu 22 września 2011 10:53 użytkownik Arend Van Spriel
<arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx> napisał:
>> From: linux-wireless-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-wireless-
>> owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Büsch
>> Sent: donderdag 22 september 2011 1:29
>> To: Brett Rudley
>> Cc: Rafał Miłecki; Greg KH; John W. Linville; Franky (Zhenhui) Lin;
>> gregkh@xxxxxxx; devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-
>> wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/20] staging: brcm80211: 7th reaction for
>> mainline patch #2
>>
>> On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:15:10 -0700
>> "Brett Rudley" <brudley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> Well, what about embedded, for instance?
>
> The brcmsmac driver has been tested on a MIPS platform by Jonas Gorski
> although only in STA mode (on a bcm63xx). Not having AP mode has been
> explained in other emails.
>
> Also we fully intend to transition to BCMA but that would also be new
> feature added. Having AP mode and BCMA would enable you guys for using
> it in the embedded targets, right?
>
>> > I'm not totally opposed to that idea but it does not solve the
>> primary issue of conflicting b43 and brcmsmac modules.
>>
>> I'm not convinced that this is an issue at all and I'm not convinced
>> that it has to be resolved.
>> At least not now.
>>
>
> It never hurts to look ahead. Both drivers have their use in the linux
> tree and we should align which driver is doing what. Apparently we should
> have yelled really hard when b43 was adding bcma support, because then
> it snatched the chipsets we support as well. You learn your lessons the
> hard way in Linux land, or so it seems ;-)

And I should have notice you add code for N-PHY with your initial
brcm80211 commit ;) There's always something that you won't notice at
the correct time.

-- 
Rafał
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