Return-path: Received: from mail-ww0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:54887 "EHLO mail-ww0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750948Ab1H0Ql2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Aug 2011 12:41:28 -0400 Received: by wwf5 with SMTP id 5so4456299wwf.1 for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2011 09:41:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E591E32.7050204@gmail.com> (sfid-20110827_184132_887147_31669CED) Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:41:22 +0200 From: Xose Vazquez Perez MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gregkh@suse.de, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Move brcm80211 to mainline Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Greg KH wrote: > 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? There are *three* drivers for the 'same' hw: wl(proprietary), brcmsmac(staging) and b43(kernel) http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#bcm43xx.2C_b43legacy.2C_b43.2C_softmac.2C..._the_full_story http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Supported_devices