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Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 10:50:31 +0300
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Subject: Re: Fwd: bcmdhd: Concurrent use of wlan0 and virtual interface in
 managed mode
From: Gucea Doru <gucea.doru@gmail.com>
To: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 12:01 AM, Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> wrote:

> The BCM4339 chip does not rely on mac80211. Instead, there is an
> 802.11 stack running on the device, ie. in firmware. The driver creates the
> primary interface, ie. wlan0. Additional P2P interfaces are created by
> wpa_supplicant.
>

Hm, BCM4339 uses the bcmdhd driver.
So the bcmdhd driver is not a softmac[1] driver and the the 802.11
processing is not done in software, right?

[1] https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/glossary#softmac

Regards,
Doru