Return-path: Received: from mail-pz0-f42.google.com ([209.85.210.42]:40111 "EHLO mail-pz0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754387Ab1HYUz1 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:55:27 -0400 Received: by pzk37 with SMTP id 37so3063831pzk.1 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:55:27 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110824222801.GA5280@broadcom.com> References: <20110707002034.GA17885@broadcom.com> <20110824222801.GA5280@broadcom.com> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 22:55:26 +0200 Message-ID: (sfid-20110825_225531_193512_4513BCCA) Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Move brcm80211 to mainline From: =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= To: Henry Ptasinski Cc: "linville@tuxdriver.com" , "gregkh@suse.de" , "devel@linuxdriverproject.org" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , Brett Rudley , Arend Van Spriel , Roland Vossen , "Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 2011/8/25 Henry Ptasinski : > With the latest series of cleanup patches merged in by Greg KH, I'd like to > once again propose moving brcm80211 out of staging and into mainline. Henry: a simple question, please explain it to me, what brcmsmac does provide that b43 doesn't? brcmsmac doesn't support SSB and duplicates BCMA support (doesn't make use of bcma module) brmcsmac doesn't support older PHYs like G/LP brmcsmac doesn't support recent HT-PHY brmcsmac doesn't support AP or monitor mode all of that is supported by b43 The one thing brcmsmac is better at, is support for 14e4:4727 card (BCM4313). I've already started work on support of this card in b43, hope to get it working soon. You mostly just duplicate support for cards that are already supported by b43. -- Rafał