Broadcom brcm80211 driver

Kyle McMartin kyle at mcmartin.ca
Tue Oct 12 22:48:34 UTC 2010


On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 04:56:01PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> I would prefer not to 'jump the gun', for the reasons Matthew stated.
> 
> That said, I would strongly encourage you (i.e. jcm) and anyone else
> to continue contributing to brcm80211 in order to help it transition
> to drivers/net/wireless ASAP.  If you would prefer to use brcm80211
> as a hardware guide for improving b43, that's find by me too.  :-)
> 

I wrote up some guidelines a while ago:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelStagingPolicy

But obviously haven't updated it recently, but everything has followed
those guidelines so far, at76usb for hysterical raisins, and lirc
because Jarod has been doing significant work usptream.

--Kyle


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