On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 09:12:49PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 10:59 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > > 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 :) FWIW, I would like to see a mac80211-based port of the current bcm43xx driver available as soon as it is ready, without waiting to strip-out the non-b portions. This should help us abandon softmac as soon as possible. Plus, we may need to consider preserving the driver in its current form (aside from the softmac -> mac80211 port) for some time as a compatibility aid for those who already have working configurations with the "bcm43xx" driver. Forcing a happy user to locate new firmware for no obvious benefit to them is not very nice (as I have learned so well w/ Fedora 7)... John -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - 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
