Future of the broadcom-wl package?

Christian Marangi ansuelsmth at gmail.com
Fri Jan 26 09:56:57 PST 2024


On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 06:45:58PM +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> does anybody still care about the broadcom-wl package in OpenWrt?
> I think it would be nice if we could get rid of it, along with the code
> support and abstraction for different wireless drivers.
> It would also allow us to rewrite iwinfo in ucode with nl80211 as the only
> supported API, which helps keep things simple.
> 
> Would anybody be opposed to declaring 23.05 to be the last release to
> support broadcom-wl?
>

+1 by me... Also about this it's worth saying that the thing was broken
from a long time and was actually fixed by me as the precompiled module
referenced a symbol that got renamed in recent kernel. So I assume the
usage of it is very very low. (if not existent even)

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