Re: at76_usb driver status

[Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>]

On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 09:29 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:

> > So for now, if no one really screams, I'll put Pavel's driver into the
> > drivers/staging/ tree so that users can use their devices.  When your
> > driver is merged, we can merely delete this driver instead.
> >
> > Sound good?
> 
> That sounds very good. User's benefit from this and that's what
> counts.
> 
> BTW, Pavel doesn't have time for at76 anymore. So if you have any
> problems with Pavel's driver in the stating tree, I can help you.

I'm not going to scream, and I'm not sure my opinion really matters, but
I don't think it's a good idea to have two different drivers under the
same name in different kernel trees.

My preference is that we give a better exposure to the mac80211 based
driver, so that potential contributors don't spend time on dead end
code.

Finally, I would prefer that my name is not used with either driver.
The original driver was written by other people.  I just cleaned it up
and fixed some bugs.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin