Broadcom brcm80211 driver

[Andy Gospodarek]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 03:37:28PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I've been testing out the newly Open Sourced Broadcom driver that's in
> the staging-next tree. Seems reliable, aside from suspend/resume (I
> posted one patch for handling radio is disabled on init hard crash).
> 
> Sure, it'll hopefully land in staging and be in the rawhide kernel in
> due course, but given that I'm lazy and bought the netbook in question
> specifically to run rawhide(!), would there be huge objections to a
> patch sooner that pulled in this driver until it's there officially?
> Sure, it's experimental, but it's self-contained and this is rawhide.
> Let me know if this would be just a silly/bad idea.
> 

It sets a bad precedent.  If it's not ready for upstream it should not
be ready for rawhide.