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Date:      Sat, 20 Aug 2016 12:27:20 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r304506 - in head: . release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware share/man/man4/man4.i386 sys/conf sys/dev/wl sys/i386/conf sys/modules sys/modules/wl targets/pseudo/userland tools/build/mk to...
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On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> wrote:
> [snip]
>
> I ... may do some kind of anniversary related work to fix up wi support again.
>
> Because - and this is pretty god damned hilarious - the same stack
> features (no raw frames, 802.3 encapsulation, scan/join/etc done via
> commands only, etc) that I need to 'fix' for wi are also required for
> almost all the 11ac hardware.

I'm not saying don't fix it. There's a bunch of older laptops that still
have these cards in them (much to my amazement). Just that it shouldn't
be a priority. If it works, keep it in the tree. If it is broken, though, the
time has come to ditch it...

Warner



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