Return-path: Received: from mail-pz0-f42.google.com ([209.85.210.42]:49436 "EHLO mail-pz0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751664Ab1H0PMg convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Aug 2011 11:12:36 -0400 Received: by pzk37 with SMTP id 37so5876611pzk.1 for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2011 08:12:36 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20110707002034.GA17885@broadcom.com> <20110824222801.GA5280@broadcom.com> <20110827143513.GN3775@shale.localdomain> <20110827145003.GA9405@suse.de> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 17:12:36 +0200 Message-ID: (sfid-20110827_171239_963712_6F7D73B6) Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Move brcm80211 to mainline From: =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= To: Greg KH , Hauke Mehrtens Cc: Dan Carpenter , Henry Ptasinski , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "linville@tuxdriver.com" , "devel@linuxdriverproject.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: W dniu 27 sierpnia 2011 17:08 użytkownik Rafał Miłecki napisał: > 2011/8/27 Greg KH : >> On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 05:35:13PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: >>> 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? >> >> I always thought that b43 and the staging driver supported different >> devices and had no overlap, which is why I had no problem with it. >> >> Was I totally mistaken and got this wrong? > > Please see my last e-mail in this thread for history overview. > > Right now the only card that is supported by brcmsmac and is not > supported by b43 is 14e4:4727. That card is based on PHY type LCN, and > I'm working on adding support for it in b43. > > Other cards supported by brcmsmac (14e4:4353, 14e4:4357) are supported > by b43. b43 also works on SoCs (routers) using BCMA and having BCMA core based on N-PHY. This support was added by Hauke and I think he reported AP mode was somehow working for him. AFAIR it wasn't stable yet, but some packets were transferred :) -- Rafał