Broadcom's wireless drivers, one year later [LWN.net]

Broadcom's wireless drivers, one year later

Posted Sep 10, 2011 9:46 UTC (Sat) by slashdot (guest, #22014)
In reply to: Broadcom's wireless drivers, one year later by mjg59
Parent article: Broadcom's wireless drivers, one year later

There's always to option to leave things as they are now.

bcsmsmac stays in staging forever, and gets worked on by Broadcom engineers.

End-users mostly use b43 instead, and the b43 developers port any new feature appearing in bcsmsmac to b43 (with acknowledgements, preferably).

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Broadcom's wireless drivers, one year later

Posted Sep 11, 2011 0:36 UTC (Sun) by butlerm (guest, #13312) [Link]

I agree. I don't see why Broadcom doesn't develop an open reference driver on an out of tree basis, according to whatever conventions they prefer, and let developers of compatible drivers use it as a reference.

That way they maintain 100% control, one code base that they can deploy across multiple operating systems, and others can do whatever they feel is appropriate for local standards, code sharing, and long term maintenance.