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Re: [RESEND] [PATCHv2] b43 add harware tkip

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On Friday 31 July 2009 23:04:17 gregor kowski wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On 7/28/09, Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> This add hardware tkip for b43.
> >
> > First of all, I don't really want to support hw tkip on b43.
> > Broadcom removed the support for hw tkip from their drivers. I bet they
> > had a very good reason to do so.
> Did they remove it from the firmware or only the driver ?

I'm not sure about the firmware. But they removed it from the driver.

> > It's mapped to 4, because you removed the old API support.
> > (I'm not sure whether we want to remove that support, yet. Gimme some time
> > on it...)
> >
> Does the old API still useful ?

Well, I'm not sure. Why do we remove it at all? It just avoids one single
if condition in your tkip patch, doesn't it?

> Are there v4 firmware supporting old API ?

Yes

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Greetings, Michael.
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