Return-path: Received: from mfe1.polimi.it ([131.175.12.23]:34551 "EHLO polimi.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759483AbXGTDNA (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:13:00 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:09:32 +0200 From: Stefano Brivio To: Larry Finger Cc: "John W. Linville" , Michael Buesch , Broadcom Linux , wireless Subject: Re: bcm4301: A mac80211 driver using V3 firmware Message-ID: <20070720050932.5052468c@morte> In-Reply-To: <46A01209.4030200@lwfinger.net> References: <46963C0F.3080104@lwfinger.net> <20070719215801.GB12449@tuxdriver.com> <20070720012714.0dc0298a@morte> <46A01209.4030200@lwfinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:38:17 -0500 Larry Finger wrote: > 4. Once bcm43xx-mac80211 gets merged to mainline, then Michael's driver > should become bcm43xx and my driver gets its PCI IDs stripped to the > 802.11b-only devices and once again becomes bcm4301. This name change for > Michael's driver would cause some disruption for current users as their > firmware would have the wrong name/version. That might be too much of a > problem. No, as long as we preserve the current firmware naming scheme. Some distributions are already shipping both the softmac and the mac80211 based drivers, with fwcutter installation scripts meant for dealing with this. Some clear printk's in both drivers should do the rest. -- Ciao Stefano