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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:44:16 -0500
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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Subject: Re: About the patch: "staging: brcm80211: only enable brcmsmac if
 bcma is not set"
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On 09/13/2011 12:44 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
>
> We are going to have to find a way to get brcmsmac into the
> wireless-next tree to make it feasible for the Broadcom guys to get
> bcma support into that driver.  Do you agree?
>
> We could move it under the drivers/net/wireless tree.  Or, maybe I
> could negotiate with Greg to keep it under the drivers/staging tree
> but to let me manage it under wireless-next.  Or...?  Do you have
> any thoughts on this?

Based on the earlier comments, I still see lots of problems in getting brcmsmac 
into the drivers/net/wireless tree; however, the solution where Greg lets you 
manage that part of drivers/staging does not seem to cause too many problems, as 
long as he is kept in the loop. If you could push those changes through Greg 
rather than DaveM, I don't think he would lose any control.

Larry