From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>,
"Henry Ptasinski" <henryp@broadcom.com>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"linville@tuxdriver.com" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
"devel@linuxdriverproject.org" <devel@linuxdriverproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Move brcm80211 to mainline
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 07:50:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110827145003.GA9405@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110827143513.GN3775@shale.localdomain>
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 05:35:13PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:55:26PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> > 2011/8/25 Henry Ptasinski <henryp@broadcom.com>:
> > > 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?
> >
>
> Wow. Why are we only having this discussion now? Somewhere along
> the line, there has been a massive communications failure. What
> happened here? Henry, did you know about the b43 driver? Can
> someone explain what's going on?
I always thought that b43 and the staging driver supported different
devices and had no overlap, which is why I had no problem with it.
Was I totally mistaken and got this wrong?
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-27 14:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-07 0:20 [RFC] Move brcm80211 to mainline Henry Ptasinski
2011-07-07 0:40 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-07-07 0:58 ` Pavel Roskin
2011-07-07 1:45 ` Greg KH
2011-07-07 14:46 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-07-07 14:58 ` Greg KH
2011-07-07 21:55 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-07-07 22:04 ` Greg KH
2011-07-07 22:25 ` Pavel Roskin
2011-07-07 15:17 ` Jonas Gorski
2011-07-07 21:21 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-07-07 0:45 ` Pavel Roskin
2011-07-07 15:01 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-24 22:28 ` [PATCH v2] " Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-24 22:53 ` Greg KH
2011-08-24 23:17 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-24 23:47 ` Greg KH
2011-08-24 23:54 ` Joe Perches
2011-08-25 0:42 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-25 0:52 ` Joe Perches
2011-08-25 1:11 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-25 2:23 ` Greg KH
2011-08-25 2:45 ` Joe Perches
2011-08-25 5:02 ` Johannes Berg
2011-09-30 21:54 ` Arend Van Spriel
2011-09-30 22:11 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-08-24 23:05 ` Dan Carpenter
2011-08-25 0:49 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-24 23:10 ` Aaro Koskinen
2011-08-24 23:18 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-24 23:54 ` Aaro Koskinen
2011-08-24 23:41 ` Jonas Gorski
2011-08-25 0:20 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-25 8:53 ` Michael Büsch
2011-08-25 10:34 ` Jonas Gorski
2011-08-25 17:59 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-25 21:07 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-25 21:09 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-26 17:58 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-25 20:55 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-25 21:11 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-25 21:23 ` Larry Finger
2011-08-26 17:55 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-26 19:37 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-26 19:45 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-27 12:05 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-27 13:18 ` Michael Büsch
2011-08-27 13:58 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-30 13:02 ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-27 14:35 ` Dan Carpenter
2011-08-27 14:50 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-08-27 15:08 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-27 15:12 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-27 16:45 ` Hauke Mehrtens
2011-08-27 15:21 ` Greg KH
2011-08-27 15:27 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-30 1:42 ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-08-30 4:28 ` Greg KH
2011-08-30 6:22 ` Johannes Berg
2011-08-30 8:31 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-30 9:28 ` Michael Büsch
2011-08-31 12:31 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-30 6:17 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-09-10 16:48 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-08-30 18:14 ` Greg KH
2011-08-31 17:55 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-08-31 18:33 ` Greg KH
2011-08-31 18:58 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-08-31 11:55 ` Hauke Mehrtens
2011-08-31 14:18 ` John W. Linville
2011-08-31 17:46 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-08-31 17:47 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2011-08-27 14:59 ` Rafał Miłecki
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2011-08-27 16:41 Xose Vazquez Perez
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