Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 06:41:41 -0800
From: Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>
To: Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>
Cc: bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Feyd <feyd@seznam.cz>
Subject: Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] Broadcom 43xx first results
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On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 03:28:32PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:

> Well, I do not care for drivers ignoring SoftMAC and duplicating
> the work. The question is: Why don't these drivers use SoftMAC?
> (Yeah, because it is incomplete, is the answer. :D I am talking
> about future.)

For me, the answer would have been because I had no idea about that
being worked on somewhere else. Now the answer would be more likely
"because it is not in netdev-2.6 tree with rest of ieee80211
development".

> What is so hard about a driver including ieee80211.h _and_
> ieee80211softmac.h, if it requires Software MAC? And what
> exactly is duplicated work here? SoftMAC does _not_ duplicate;
> it extends.

That is not hard as long as this work is easily available.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA
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