W dniu 25 sierpnia 2011 22:55 użytkownik Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx> napisał: > 2011/8/25 Henry Ptasinski <henryp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> With the latest series of cleanup patches merged in by Greg KH, I'd like to >> once again propose moving brcm80211 out of staging and into mainline. > > Henry: a simple question, please explain it to me, what brcmsmac does > provide that b43 doesn't? > > brcmsmac doesn't support SSB and duplicates BCMA support (doesn't make > use of bcma module) > brmcsmac doesn't support older PHYs like G/LP > brmcsmac doesn't support recent HT-PHY > brmcsmac doesn't support AP or monitor mode > all of that is supported by b43 > > The one thing brcmsmac is better at, is support for 14e4:4727 card > (BCM4313). I've already started work on support of this card in b43, > hope to get it working soon. > > > You mostly just duplicate support for cards that are already supported by b43. I've another idea. What about adding support for 14e4:4727 (BCM4313) into b43 (I'll handle that task) and dropping bcrmsmac? We could focus on improving one driver instead of creating 2 drivers for the same hardware. -- Rafał -- 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
