> From: Rafał Miłecki [mailto:zajec5@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: donderdag 22 september 2011 10:57 > To: Arend Van Spriel > Cc: Michael Büsch; Brett Rudley; Greg KH; John W. Linville; Franky > (Zhenhui) Lin; gregkh@xxxxxxx; devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux- > wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; jonas.gorski@xxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/20] staging: brcm80211: 7th reaction for > mainline patch #2 > > 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 Were you unaware of the chipsets that brcmsmac was supporting? When you Were working on N-PHY it was to enable certain chipsets, right? Was that in ssb context? Gr. AvS _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
