Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:49:30 -0800 From: Weongyo Jeong <weongyo.jeong@gmail.com> To: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for Test and Review: bwn(4) - another Broadcom Wireless driver Message-ID: <20091226034930.GA11506@weongyo> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912242114200.98435@ury.york.ac.uk> References: <20091223035331.GA1293@weongyo> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912242114200.98435@ury.york.ac.uk>
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On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 09:19:40PM +0000, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Weongyo Jeong wrote: > >Now bwn(4) is available at the public and waiting test and review. The > >status of this driver is *alpha* so could make panics, warnings and > >errors. Please let me know if you encounter problems. > > Firstly, let me say thank you for working on this driver. It will be > great to be able to use the v4 cards! > > May I ask, is there a reason you have written a new ssb(4) Sonics > SiliconBackplane driver, rather than using siba(4) which is already in the > tree? I don't know much about these devices, but it seems like these > are for the same (or very sumular) hardware, in which case could they be > merged into one? Frankly speaking I didn't know siba(4) during I'd written ssb(4). It's my bad and I think you opinion is right to go forward though siba(4) missed 802.11 related codes. Before committing bwn(4) into tree I'd merge codes into siba(4) firstly. regards, Weongyo Jeong
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