brcm80211 in b43

[Michael Büsch]

On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 22:47 +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote: 
> 2010/10/14 Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d at gmail.com>:
> > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Ariel Pedraza <pedrazaa at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> In the future the b43 driver will support the same devices that the brcm80211 driver does? just one universal driver pure FOSS...
> >
> > No.
> >
> > B43 only supports SSB-based devices; while brcm80211 is for SSB-less
> > ones. (Brcmfmac is yet another driver - for fullmac Broadcoms with the
> > exception of BCM4320, which is handled by rndis_wlan.)
> 
> Should be possible to add support for SSB-less devices in b43 in
> future. Probably should be easier than adding support for SSB-based
> devices in brcm80211, shouldn't it?

Yeah, I think it's probably easier to extend b43. However, I'm not sure
if it's worth the trouble. We can live with b43 and brcm80211
simultaneously just fine.

-- 
Greetings Michael.