Re: [PATCH v2] Move brcm80211 to mainline
[Posted August 29, 2011 by corbet]
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| Henry Ptasinski <henryp-dY08KVG/lbpWk0Htik3J/w-AT-public.gmane.org> |
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| Re: [PATCH v2] Move brcm80211 to mainline |
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| Thu, 25 Aug 2011 22:55:26 +0200 |
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2011/8/25 Henry Ptasinski <henryp-dY08KVG/lbpWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>:
> 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.
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Rafa?
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