From: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Cc: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>,
wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
bcm43xx devel <Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de>
Subject: Re: RFC: Future plans for bcm43xx-softmac
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:41:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <460481D8.5010905@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070323204627.183d2c21@localhost>
Stefano Brivio wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:37:51 -0500
> Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
>
>> I think we have a plan for the future of bcm43xx-softmac once the
>> bcm43xx-mac80211 version goes into mainline. Unfortunately it cannot just
>> be abandoned as there will be no support for 802.11b-only devices in
>> bcm43xx-mac80211.
>>
>> The steps to be done are as follows:
>>
>> 1. Change the namespace from bcm43xx to bcm4301. This will both reflect
>> the purpose of the changed driver as well as prevent namespace collisions
>> with the bcm43xx-mac80211 version in case both are built into the kernel.
>
> I'm quite sure you know, bcm4301 isn't the only 802.11b-only device.
> There's bcm4303 too. Anyway, naming the driver bcm4301 sounds reasonable to
> me.
Yes, but bcm430x would have been more confusing as the 4306 and 4309 are covered by V4 firmware.
Other choices such as bcm43xx-old, etc. seemed a little clumsy.
Larry
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-24 1:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-23 17:37 RFC: Future plans for bcm43xx-softmac Larry Finger
2007-03-23 18:30 ` Michael Buesch
2007-03-23 19:46 ` Stefano Brivio
2007-03-24 1:41 ` Larry Finger [this message]
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