John W. Linville wrote:
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)...
I agree that we should do a port of the current bcm43xx driver to mac80211 ASAP. I also believe that
it needs to include the non-b portions, particularly for the initial testing, but I have no
objections to leaving it intact, at least until the new driver is better at operations.
Michael Wu offered to do the initial port, but I don't know what his progress has been.
Larry
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