From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore =?iso-8859-1?q?to=09mutex?=
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:13:15 +0100
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On Sunday 16 December 2007 03:30:16 Larry Finger wrote:
> Michael Buesch wrote:
> > On Sunday 16 December 2007 00:18:43 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >> Well, the only problem with that is I suspect there are some "newer" cards that
> >> work better with v3 firmware, although they are supposed to support both.
> > 
> > And I suspect that you are wrong until you show me one. :)
> 
> The BCM4311/1 card used to work better with bcm43xx than it did with b43; however, since the power 
> control problem was "solved" in b43, there is very little difference. When I built my special system 
> to use the BCM4311 with b43legacy, there was no difference.
> 
> I don't know of any cards that work better with bcm43xx than with b43. Of course, that is comparing 
> SoftMAC with mac80211. There is, of course, no comparison.

This was about version 3 firmware vs version 4 firmware.
I doubt the firmware makes any difference at all.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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