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Move brcm80211 to mainline

PATCH Xose Vazquez Perez 1 participant 1 message Aug 27, 2011

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Quoted 4 lines · Greg KH

I always thought that b43 and the staging driver supported different devices and had no overlap, which is why I had no problem with it.

Was I totally mistaken and got this wrong?

There are *three* drivers for the 'same' hw:
wl(proprietary), brcmsmac(staging) and b43(kernel)

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#bcm43xx.2C_b43legacy.2C_b43.2C_softmac.2C..._the_full_story

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Supported_devices