W dniu 27 sierpnia 2011 17:08 użytkownik Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx> napisał: > 2011/8/27 Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>: >> On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 05:35:13PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:55:26PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote: >>> > 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? >>> > >>> >>> Wow. Why are we only having this discussion now? Somewhere along >>> the line, there has been a massive communications failure. What >>> happened here? Henry, did you know about the b43 driver? Can >>> someone explain what's going on? >> >> I always thought that b43 and the staging driver supported different >> devices and had no overlap, which is why I had no problem with it. >> >> Was I totally mistaken and got this wrong? > > Please see my last e-mail in this thread for history overview. > > Right now the only card that is supported by brcmsmac and is not > supported by b43 is 14e4:4727. That card is based on PHY type LCN, and > I'm working on adding support for it in b43. > > Other cards supported by brcmsmac (14e4:4353, 14e4:4357) are supported > by b43. b43 also works on SoCs (routers) using BCMA and having BCMA core based on N-PHY. This support was added by Hauke and I think he reported AP mode was somehow working for him. AFAIR it wasn't stable yet, but some packets were transferred :) -- 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
