Re: Broadcom 43xx first results

[Joseph Jezak]

> Why yet another attempt to write 802.11 stack? Sure, the one currently
> in the kernel is unusable and everybody knows about it. But why not to
> improve code opensourced by Devicescape some time ago instead of
> inventing the wheel again and again? Yes, I know that code is not
> perfect and needs a lot of work, but it is the best piece of code we
> have available now. And it _does_ support WPA and such - in fact, it
> is nearly complete.
>
> Please take a look at http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jbenc/

We're not writing an entire stack.  We're writing a layer that sits in 
between the current ieee80211 stack that's already present in the kernel 
and drivers that do not have a hardware MAC.  Since ieee80211 is already 
in use in the kernel today, this seemed like a natural and useful 
extension to the existing code.  I agree that it's somewhat wasteful to 
keep rewriting 802.11 stacks and we considered other options, but it 
seemed like a more logical choice to work with what was available and 
recommended than to use an external stack.

-Joe
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