From: Tim Tassonis <timtas@cubic.ch>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: State of the Union: Wireless
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:07:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43C3DBBE.3090001@cubic.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060110141324.GJ3911@stusta.de>
Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 02:34:00PM +0100, Tim Tassonis wrote:
>> Like the OSS/Alsa or XFree3.x/XFree4.x situations.
>
> And OSS/ALSA is an example why this is not a good thing:
> - OSS in the kernel is unmaintained
Because it is dead, yes...
> - people forced to use OSS drivers can't use applications only
> supporting ALSA
That is another problem. The problem is different API's. With networking
drivers, that should really not be a problem once the device is up. You
don't speak differently to different network devices, so applications
will just do fine.
> But if you have the possibility to choose which stack to use at the
> beginning (as in the wireless case), the only reasonable solution is to
> choose _one_ stack.
... _if_ you have the possibility, yes. But you might end up having
chosen the wrong one. There is a reason why two stacks exist.
Tim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-10 16:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-10 12:38 State of the Union: Wireless Tim Tassonis
2006-01-10 12:53 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-01-10 13:34 ` Tim Tassonis
2006-01-10 14:13 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-01-10 16:07 ` Tim Tassonis [this message]
2006-01-10 16:31 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-01-10 16:17 ` Tim Tassonis
2006-01-11 20:37 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-14 9:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-01-10 14:16 ` Chase Venters
[not found] ` <mailman.1136898727.7233.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2006-01-11 0:03 ` Pete Zaitcev
2006-01-11 0:29 ` Adrian Bunk
[not found] <1136541243.4037.18.camel@localhost>
2006-01-06 11:00 ` [Bcm43xx-dev] [Fwd: State of the Union: Wireless] Michael Buesch
2006-01-06 16:04 ` State of the Union: Wireless Mike Kershaw
[not found] <5rRp0-4X1-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-01-06 5:39 ` Robert Hancock
2006-01-06 6:42 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-01-06 10:26 ` Alistair John Strachan
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-01-06 4:22 Jeff Garzik
2006-01-06 11:31 ` Johannes Berg
2006-01-06 11:46 ` Dominik Brodowski
2006-01-06 12:26 ` Johannes Berg
2006-01-06 12:48 ` Stefan Rompf
2006-01-06 12:53 ` Johannes Berg
2006-01-07 14:49 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-01-10 13:18 ` Johannes Berg
2006-01-10 6:39 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-01-10 8:36 ` Chase Venters
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