From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from bu3sch.de ([62.75.166.246]:34342 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753018AbZGaVIc (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:08:32 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: gregor kowski Subject: Re: [RESEND] [PATCHv2] b43 add harware tkip Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:08:30 +0200 Cc: bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org References: <83a869cd0907271349h248204at74cc1603419fc83b@mail.gmail.com> <200907281808.35906.mb@bu3sch.de> <83a869cd0907311404o793c1733p43e936437a923340@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <83a869cd0907311404o793c1733p43e936437a923340@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200907312308.31066.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Friday 31 July 2009 23:04:17 gregor kowski wrote: > Hi Michael, > > On 7/28/09, Michael Buesch wrote: > >> This add hardware tkip for b43. > > > > First of all, I don't really want to support hw tkip on b43. > > Broadcom removed the support for hw tkip from their drivers. I bet they > > had a very good reason to do so. > Did they remove it from the firmware or only the driver ? I'm not sure about the firmware. But they removed it from the driver. > > It's mapped to 4, because you removed the old API support. > > (I'm not sure whether we want to remove that support, yet. Gimme some time > > on it...) > > > Does the old API still useful ? Well, I'm not sure. Why do we remove it at all? It just avoids one single if condition in your tkip patch, doesn't it? > Are there v4 firmware supporting old API ? Yes -- Greetings, Michael.