Hi, I am wondering about d80211 mainline merge plans.
Short: I would like to see a mainline merge of d80211 happening as soon as possible (next feature merge window). Long: I, as one of the main maintainers of the bcm43xx driver, am maintaining two different branches of the driver at the moment. It's getting harder and harder, but it's still ok. But: We are so --><-- close before another branch of the project must happen. That would mean we would have to maintain four different branches. I am certainly not going to do this. One might wonder why we require yet another branch of the driver. It's simple. Broadcom effectively branched their driver, too. The new 4.x binary driver version has _many_ differences and does not even support older chipsets. That makes it necessary for our open source driver to branch, too. At least for several months. We don't know, if we are going to branch forever, or if we are going to merge them after some months when it's stabilized, yet. To heavily reduce maintainance burden I would like to see d80211 going mainline as soon as possible, so that we can feature-freeze the softmac port of bcm43xx and reduce maintainance to next to zero there. So if people want freaky features, we simply point them to the d80211 port, which would coexist in mainline. d80211 in mainline would clearly marked as experimental, for sure. Notes must be added for possibly breaking usermode interfaces. -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
