On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:38:17 -0500
Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 4. Once bcm43xx-mac80211 gets merged to mainline, then Michael's driver
> should become bcm43xx and my driver gets its PCI IDs stripped to the
> 802.11b-only devices and once again becomes bcm4301. This name change for
> Michael's driver would cause some disruption for current users as their
> firmware would have the wrong name/version. That might be too much of a
> problem.

No, as long as we preserve the current firmware naming scheme. Some
distributions are already shipping both the softmac and the mac80211 based
drivers, with fwcutter installation scripts meant for dealing with this.
Some clear printk's in both drivers should do the rest.


-- 
Ciao
Stefano
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