From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/10] Port of bcm43xx from softmac to mac80211
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 23:06:33 +0200
Cc: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de,
	jbenc@suse.cz, flamingice@sourmilk.net
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On Thursday 02 August 2007, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 11:30 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> > I was hoping this would be your response, but I had to make the
> > effort. I'll wait for a couple of days to see if anyone else has any
> > comments and send it on to Linville and hope it ends up in -mm  fairly
> > soon. It _DOES_ work on the hardware.
> 
> My experience is that mac80211 is broken w.r.t IPv6 -- it receives its
> own packets. It would be suboptimal for me if the softmac version of
> bcm43xx were to go away before that got fixed.
> 

We don't go _away_ from anything until there's no regression anymore.
This is a patchset which adds a driver. It does not remove something.