On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:56:49PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > 2011/9/20 Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 06:03 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > >> And while code is great and nice, I still haven't seen any real answers > >> to all of the questions that were asked of the Broadcom driver team > >> during that review by the linux-wireless developers about how things > >> will be handled properly due to the overlap in functionality with the > >> existing "real" driver in the tree. > > > > Let's qualify this to "some developers". > > > > One thing I'd like to point out is that the Broadcom's firmware API has > > always undergone changes over time. I'm actually surprised that b43 > > works as well as it does (which, tbh, isn't very well at all, at least > > for me with some 11n PHY). I also don't think that Broadcom are going to > > maintain compatibility and/or maintain new firmware features for old > > devices, that just doesn't make any sense. > > Actually, when we got some single response from Broadcom about their > relation to b43, they haven't mentioned support for old HW is any > problem at all. They just pointed we don't support calibration for > N-PHY and we don't support 802.11n feature for a better performance. > > I feel we're creating some problems ourself. Just some guessing that > support for older HW can be real problem for future development... not > confirmed by anyone at all. Their new firmware doesn't run on the older hardware, no? -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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
