This is entirely unexpected.
This is entirely unexpected.
Posted Sep 1, 2011 8:30 UTC (Thu) by mjthayer (guest, #39183)In reply to: This is entirely unexpected. by dwmw2
Parent article: Broadcom's wireless drivers, one year later
> We could probably salvage some of its PHY code it would be useful to make the PHY sub-drivers compatible between b43 and brcmsmac so they can be shared, perhaps. But the rest of it is just pointless, as far as I can tell.
Actually I was thinking that an elegant solution to this might be more clear acknowledgement in B43 of how Broadcom's work has helped them - perhaps along with an attempt to explicitly re-use more of their code. That would make it clearer to Broadcom that their work was not for naught.