On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:38:17 -0500 Larry Finger <larry.finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 4. Once bcm43xx-mac80211 gets merged to mainline, then Michael's driver > should become bcm43xx and my driver gets its PCI IDs stripped to the > 802.11b-only devices and once again becomes bcm4301. This name change for > Michael's driver would cause some disruption for current users as their > firmware would have the wrong name/version. That might be too much of a > problem. No, as long as we preserve the current firmware naming scheme. Some distributions are already shipping both the softmac and the mac80211 based drivers, with fwcutter installation scripts meant for dealing with this. Some clear printk's in both drivers should do the rest. -- Ciao Stefano - 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
