From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: Kalle Valo <Kalle.Valo@iki.fi>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: at76_usb driver status
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:42:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1223271737.18180.15.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vdw6mgdl.fsf@litku.valot.fi>
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 08:39 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> I agree, it's very confusing. I'll change the name of the mac80211
> port to something else, most probably to at76c50x-usb. Any comments?
> Anyone?
I'd rather avoid the old driver completely. But if we want to resurrect
it, its name was "at76c503a".
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-06 5:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-02 21:07 at76_usb driver status Greg KH
2008-10-02 16:20 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-05 6:32 ` Kalle Valo
2008-10-05 5:56 ` Kalle Valo
2008-10-05 6:13 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-05 6:22 ` Kalle Valo
2008-10-05 6:14 ` Kalle Valo
2008-10-05 6:16 ` Greg KH
2008-10-05 6:29 ` Kalle Valo
2008-10-05 15:14 ` Greg KH
2008-10-06 5:28 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-10-06 5:39 ` Kalle Valo
2008-10-06 5:42 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2008-10-06 6:10 ` Kalle Valo
2008-10-06 6:26 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-10-05 6:41 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-05 15:14 ` Greg KH
2008-10-05 16:17 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-05 22:57 ` Greg KH
2008-10-06 15:23 ` Dan Williams
2008-10-06 10:23 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-10-06 18:21 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-06 18:35 ` Greg KH
2008-10-06 20:12 ` Dan Williams
2008-10-06 20:31 ` John W. Linville
2008-10-06 20:42 ` Johannes Berg
2008-10-06 21:39 ` John W. Linville
2008-10-06 22:54 ` Greg KH
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