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Re: Fwd: bcmdhd: Concurrent use of wlan0 and virtual interface in managed mode

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On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 12:01 AM, Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The BCM4339 chip does not rely on mac80211. Instead, there is an
> 802.11 stack running on the device, ie. in firmware. The driver creates the
> primary interface, ie. wlan0. Additional P2P interfaces are created by
> wpa_supplicant.
>

Hm, BCM4339 uses the bcmdhd driver.
So the bcmdhd driver is not a softmac[1] driver and the the 802.11
processing is not done in software, right?

[1] https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/glossary#softmac

Regards,
Doru
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