Return-path: Received: from mtiwmhc11.worldnet.att.net ([204.127.131.115]:56569 "EHLO mtiwmhc11.worldnet.att.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754244AbXHBVb7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Aug 2007 17:31:59 -0400 Message-ID: <46B24D4D.5020904@lwfinger.net> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:31:57 -0500 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Woodhouse CC: Michael Buesch , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, jbenc@suse.cz, flamingice@sourmilk.net Subject: Re: [RFC 0/10] Port of bcm43xx from softmac to mac80211 References: <46b1fde0.b+weBDN75J0SPe2a%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> <200708021807.20649.mb@bu3sch.de> <46B20695.2080100@lwfinger.net> <1186088678.2931.10.camel@pmac.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <1186088678.2931.10.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. > This will go into -mm. I hope that it gets plenty of testing, in fact, I hope you grab the patch set and make a trial of your own. If this driver is broken with IPv6, I want to know. Larry