Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Dec 2005 06:41:41 -0800 | From | Jouni Malinen <> | Subject | Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] Broadcom 43xx first results |
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On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 03:28:32PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> Well, I do not care for drivers ignoring SoftMAC and duplicating > the work. The question is: Why don't these drivers use SoftMAC? > (Yeah, because it is incomplete, is the answer. :D I am talking > about future.)
For me, the answer would have been because I had no idea about that being worked on somewhere else. Now the answer would be more likely "because it is not in netdev-2.6 tree with rest of ieee80211 development".
> What is so hard about a driver including ieee80211.h _and_ > ieee80211softmac.h, if it requires Software MAC? And what > exactly is duplicated work here? SoftMAC does _not_ duplicate; > it extends.
That is not hard as long as this work is easily available.
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