Re: Future of the broadcom-wl package?
On 26.01.2024 18:45, Felix Fietkau wrote: 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? Go ahead and drop it! If anyone wants that driver it should receive cfg80211 API layer so it can be used with generic tools. It should be quite doable and actually I know there were GPL 2 licsensed wl_cfg80211.c files (with wl_cfg80211_add_virtual_iface() and friends) floating around in various projects. ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: Future of the broadcom-wl package?
On 1/26/24 18:45, 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? - Felix +1, I support removing broadcom-wl. We should also do it because it uses a closed source binary we link into the kernel. Hauke ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: Future of the broadcom-wl package?
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) -- Ansuel ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Re: Future of the broadcom-wl package?
Hi Felix, On 1/26/24 18:45, 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 - Fine with me Best David - Felix ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
Future of the broadcom-wl package?
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? - Felix ___ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
