Return-path: Received: from mail-gy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.160.174]:49943 "EHLO mail-gy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753627Ab1HYVLP convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:11:15 -0400 Received: by gya6 with SMTP id 6so2115322gya.19 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:11:14 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20110707002034.GA17885@broadcom.com> <20110824222801.GA5280@broadcom.com> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:11:14 +0200 Message-ID: (sfid-20110825_231118_558583_951E5796) 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: W dniu 25 sierpnia 2011 22:55 użytkownik Rafał Miłecki napisał: > 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. I've another idea. What about adding support for 14e4:4727 (BCM4313) into b43 (I'll handle that task) and dropping bcrmsmac? We could focus on improving one driver instead of creating 2 drivers for the same hardware. -- Rafał