Subject: Re: Licensing wlc_phy_radio.h and brcm80211 (was: [PATCH 3/3] b43:
 N-PHY: add 2055 radio regs)
From: Michael =?ISO-8859-1?Q?B=FCsch?= <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:24:17 +0200
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On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 10:17 -0700, Greg KH wrote: 
> > Finishing N-PHY support in b43 does not need much work plus:
> > 1) We support SSB devices
> > 2) We support older (LP/G-phy) devices
> > 3) We share infrastructure (easier to maintain)
> > 4) We probably could support modes like AP
> 
> If that would be a simpler task than trying to clean up the brcm80211
> driver, that seems quite reasonable.

That's really an unrelated topic. b43 and brcm80211 support different
kinds of devices whereas both devices may share certain sub-devices.
Like the radio device (b2056) in this case.

So it's not just a matter of "cleaning up" brcm80211. That doesn't give
us support for old SSB based N-PHY devices, because brcm80211 does not
support them at all.

-- 
Greetings Michael.