On 08/27/2011 05:12 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:

W dniu 27 sierpnia 2011 17:08 użytkownik Rafał Miłecki
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2011/8/27 Greg KH [off-list ref]:

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On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 05:35:13PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:

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On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:55:26PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:

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2011/8/25 Henry Ptasinski [off-list ref]:

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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?

Please see my last e-mail in this thread for history overview.

Right now the only card that is supported by brcmsmac and is not
supported by b43 is 14e4:4727. That card is based on PHY type LCN, and
I'm working on adding support for it in b43.

Other cards supported by brcmsmac (14e4:4353, 14e4:4357) are supported
by b43.

b43 also works on SoCs (routers) using BCMA and having BCMA core based
on N-PHY. This support was added by Hauke and I think he reported AP
mode was somehow working for him. AFAIR it wasn't stable yet, but some
packets were transferred :)

Yes AP mode is working with the code in wireless-testing, expect that
the architecture code (mips) does not provide the sprom stored in the
flash to bcma yet. I just set a random mac address for the device and
wireless worked. I have not tested it much, just connected with a client
and got the same speed with iperf as b43 running in client mode. As no
additional changes where needed for AP mode I think b43 should already
support the same functionality when using N-PHY devices as with G-PHY
devices.

Hauke