From: "John W. Linville" <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:28:19 -0400 > This series adds the b43 and b43legacy drivers, as well as the ssb > bus infrastructure upon which they depend. > > These drivers support the BCM43xx wireless hardware from Broadcom. > The b43 driver supports modern hardware using the "version 4" firmware, > while the b43legacy driver uses the "version 3" firmware to support > some older devices which lack the resources to run the newer (and > more feature rich) firmware. Both drivers have performed well in > -mm and Fedora rawhide, and b43 has performed well in later Fedora > 7 kernels as well. > > Furthermore, Michael and Larry have both demonstrated a strong > commitment to the community and their users. They both have responded > to bugs both at the kernel.org bugzilla and in distro bugzillas. > I have every confidence that they will continue to support their > drivers at the same high standard that have already set. I'd like > to take this opportunity to thank both of them for their support both > in the past and in the future as well. > > No doubt there are still problems here. But again, I think we would > be better served by mainlining this code rather than continuing to > maintain it out of stream. John, I'm adding this and the iwlwifi bits to my net-2.6.24 tree. Thanks. - 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
