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On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 03:18:54PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:

> 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)...

As a re-read this, it seems subject to misinterpretation.  I mean
that once the existing bcm43xx driver (11g bits and all) is ported to
mac80211, we may want to keep the 11g bits even after the existing
bcm43xx-mac80211 (using v4 firmware) driver has been ported.
Worth considering...

John
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