On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 10:59 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > As it is impossible to predict how long until we can remove softmac, such patches should be > accepted. Oh of course! I do agree with both patches, I hope they're applied. If you want: Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > As we discussed earlier, bcm43xx-softmac has to be ported to mac80211 to support 802.11b-only cards, > as the V4 firmware does not accommodate them. I had started this project by changing the namespace > to bcm4301. That patch went into Linville's wireless-dev pending list. I then started learning the > interface to mac80211. For a number of reasons, that step was going slowly. Michael Wu recently > offered to take over, which seemed reasonable given his familiarity with mac80211. > > When Michael Wu gets a version of bcm4301-mac80211 that compiles cleanly, I will be testing it as he > doesn't have the hardware. For my testing purposes, the 802.11g stuff will still be there. Once I > get it working, I plan to post a patch to get as much testing as possible. > > In the earlier discussion, we also concluded that the product of a conversion from softmac to > mac80211 should not be included in mainline, with the exception of the b-only code. Depending on how > long the port and testing take, and the state of bcm43xx-mac80211 at that time, a reversal of that > earlier decision may be in order. I'd think that once somebody has time for it both port and testing should go pretty soon, and I'd think that we can do that sooner than fix the current bcm43xx-mac80211, in which case IMHO the result should be included in mainline seeing that zd1211rw will probably be ready for mac80211 in the .23 timeframe. That means that at that point we might even be able to drop softmac already if the second straightforward (here I mean without any other changes to the driver) bcm43xx port is ready :) johannes
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