Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:00:20 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Franky Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>, gregkh@suse.de,
	devel@linuxdriverproject.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/20] staging: brcm80211: 7th reaction for mainline
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On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 09:22:03AM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 06:03:38AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 02:25:48PM -0700, Franky Lin wrote:
> > > Code clean up for fullmac.
> > 
> > Ok, this is the 7th patch series since the last round of "how do we get
> > our driver into mainline" happened.
> > 
> > And while code is great and nice, I still haven't seen any real answers
> > to all of the questions that were asked of the Broadcom driver team
> > during that review by the linux-wireless developers about how things
> > will be handled properly due to the overlap in functionality with the
> > existing "real" driver in the tree.
> > 
> > So, can you please start answering these questions?  I'm loath to keep
> > accepting patches until that all gets straightened out as it potentially
> > wastes my, and your, time by doing so.
> > 
> > In other words, I'm not going to apply any more patches until this gets
> > resolved.  Consider this patchset dropped from my to-apply queue for now
> > because of that.
> 
> I think most of the outstanding series from Broadcom are
> (almost?) exclusively for their fullmac driver, which has not overlap
> with b43.  We should be moving forward toward getting the fullmac
> driver into wireless-next.

Ok, that's great, but again, no one from Broadcom has said what their
plans are, only sent lots of patches, which while wonderful, has caused
some confusion on my and other parts.

greg k-h