Staging: Add initial release of brcm80211 - Broadcom 802.11n wireless LAN driver.

Signed-off-by: Henry Ptasinski <henryp@broadcom.com>
Cc: Brett Rudley <brudley@broadcom.com>
Cc: Nohee Ko <noheek@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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+To Do List for Broadcom Mac80211 driver
+
+Features to be added
+=====================
+- 40 MHz channels
+- Power Save
+- AP
+- IBSS
+- HW-based encryption
+- LED support
+- RFKILL
+- Debugfs and debugability
+
+Code cleanup
+============
+- Use proper kernel coding standards
+- Remove overlap with system header files. (ie much of include/proto/*.h should
+  be removed)
+- Purge unused variables/data structs/functions BUT keep code related to
+  features that are being added (ie AP mode, 40 Mhz channels, IBSS etc).
+- Replace proprietary utility functions with public kernel versions.
+
+Bugs
+====
+- Various occasional asserts/hangs
+- Scanning during data transfer sometimes causes major slowdowns.  Sometimes
+  revcovers when scan is done, other times not.
+- Driver does not handle missing firmware gracefully.
+- Mac80211 API not completely implemented (ie ops_bss_info_changed,
+  ops_get_stats, etc)
+
+Other
+=====
+- wlc_mac80211.[ch], wl_mac80211.[ch] and linux_osl.c all need to be refactored
+    and combined.
+- Replace driver's proprietary ssb interface with generic kernel ssb module
+  (only used when compiling for SDIO).
+- PCI and SDIO support are currently #ifdef'ed exclusive of each other, which
+  leads to a separate wl.ko for each.  This should be changed to runtime
+  handling of different interfaces so that a single binary driver can be built.
+- Add support for new chips (obviously an ongoing item).
+