From: Chor Teck Law <ctlaw@marvell.com>
To: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
CC: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>, David Lin <dlin@marvell.com>,
	"Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Pete Hsieh <peteh@marvell.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v5] Add new mac80211 driver mwlwifi.
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 15:29:21 +0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maxime Bizon [mailto:mbizon@freebox.fr]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2015 7:22 AM
> 
> On Wednesday 05 Aug 2015 ? 08:39:28 (+0000), Chor Teck Law wrote:
> 
> > Last words, The mwl8k series had its history, since 2009 with the
> > Topdog series (Beyond our scope to comment). The mwlwifi have been
> > developed over past year or so for the Avastar AP chips, being
> 
> incorrect, mwl8k also support Avastar AP (88W8764)
> 

OK, I had used a wrong word. The mwlwifi currently supports 88W8864 and 88W8897 as softmac/hostmac. 

> one of the mwlwifi feedback was that the Kconfig description was
> inaccurate, and because of overlap with mwifiex, everyone did scratch
> their heads trying to describe what each driver actually supports.
> 

The discussion was around choice of words to distinguish 88W8897. The difference with mwifiex (fullmac vs softmac) and has been explained.