Re: [PATCH v2] Move brcm80211 to mainline

Greg KH [off-list ref] wrote:

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?

There are *three* drivers for the 'same' hw:
wl(proprietary), brcmsmac(staging) and b43(kernel)

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#bcm43xx.2C_b43legacy.2C_b43.2C_softmac.2C..._the_full_story

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Supported_devices