On Friday 23 March 2007 18:37, Larry Finger wrote: > I think we have a plan for the future of bcm43xx-softmac once the bcm43xx-mac80211 version goes into > mainline. Unfortunately it cannot just be abandoned as there will be no support for 802.11b-only > devices in bcm43xx-mac80211. > > The steps to be done are as follows: > > 1. Change the namespace from bcm43xx to bcm4301. This will both reflect the purpose of the changed > driver as well as prevent namespace collisions with the bcm43xx-mac80211 version in case both are > built into the kernel. > > 2. Modify bcm4301 to use mac80211 rather than softmac. Although this process has the potential for > introducing bugs into what is currently the stable version, it does allow the abandonment of softmac > with its deficiencies, many of which are essentially uncorrectable. > > 3. The PCI-ids recognized by bcm4301-mac80211 will be restricted to the 802.11b-only devices and the > configuration information will be modified. > > Step 1 will be completed very soon and the appropriate patches will be submitted to Linville's > wireless-dev tree. > > I will be working on step 2 in the coming months and will submit those patches to the list for > comments and testing. When ready, they too will be submitted to Linville. Once bcm43xx-mac80211 goes > into mainline, the step 3 patches will be submitted. > > Please comment on this plan. I ACK this as-is. -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
