From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>,
Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Joe Jezak <josejx@gentoo.org>,
Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] softmac: use list_for_each_entry
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:06:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070611200629.GH10397@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070611191854.GG10397@tuxdriver.com>
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 03:18:54PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> Plus, we may need to consider preserving the driver in its current
> form (aside from the softmac -> mac80211 port) for some time as a
> compatibility aid for those who already have working configurations
> with the "bcm43xx" driver. Forcing a happy user to locate new firmware
> for no obvious benefit to them is not very nice (as I have learned
> so well w/ Fedora 7)...
As a re-read this, it seems subject to misinterpretation. I mean
that once the existing bcm43xx driver (11g bits and all) is ported to
mac80211, we may want to keep the 11g bits even after the existing
bcm43xx-mac80211 (using v4 firmware) driver has been ported.
Worth considering...
John
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John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-11 20:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-27 14:27 [PATCH] softmac: use list_for_each_entry Akinobu Mita
2007-05-31 20:24 ` Johannes Berg
2007-06-01 15:59 ` Larry Finger
2007-06-01 19:12 ` Johannes Berg
2007-06-11 19:18 ` John W. Linville
2007-06-11 20:06 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2007-06-11 20:14 ` Larry Finger
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