Return-path: Received: from mail-pz0-f42.google.com ([209.85.210.42]:37101 "EHLO mail-pz0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750882Ab1H0Ohc (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Aug 2011 10:37:32 -0400 Received: by pzk37 with SMTP id 37so5840266pzk.1 for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2011 07:37:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 17:35:13 +0300 From: Dan Carpenter To: =?utf-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= Cc: Henry Ptasinski , "gregkh@suse.de" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "linville@tuxdriver.com" , "devel@linuxdriverproject.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Move brcm80211 to mainline Message-ID: <20110827143513.GN3775@shale.localdomain> (sfid-20110827_163736_221766_D74BAE53) References: <20110707002034.GA17885@broadcom.com> <20110824222801.GA5280@broadcom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:55:26PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > 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? > Wow. Why are we only having this discussion now? Somewhere along the line, there has been a massive communications failure. What happened here? Henry, did you know about the b43 driver? Can someone explain what's going on? regards, dan carpenter