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Re: [RFC] Move brcm80211 to mainline

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2011/7/7 Henry Ptasinski <henryp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> With the latest series of cleanup patches merged in by Greg KH, I'd like to now
> propose moving brcm80211 out of staging and into mainline.
>
> Since brcm80211 in staging-next has about ~250 patches that areen't in
> wireless-testing yet, I've put together a patch to add a copy of the current
> sources from staging-next into wireless-testing:drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211.
>
> The patch is somewhat large, so I've posted the patch at:
>
>        http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=0001-wireless-testing-add-brcm80211.patch
>
> Only the necessary Kconfig and Makefile adjustments have been made (the sources
> are unchanged from what's currently in staging-next).

Short question, without commenting on brcm80211 code yet:

Why should we want 2 mainline drivers for the same hardware?

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Rafał
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