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From: David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Faidon Liambotis <paravoid@debian.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.23 3/3] [wireless] orinoco: create a Kconfig option for Prism2
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:42:10 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070723014210.GB3272@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070722131751.GA3009@void.cube.gr>

On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 04:17:51PM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
> Since v2.6.14, Prism 2/2.5/3 devices are better supported using the HostAP
> driver, which was made to work with these exclusively.
> Having the same IDs supported by orinoco too confuses users who have both
> drivers compiled in or as modules who expect hostap to drive the device.
> 
> Telling users to echo to /sys/bus/pci/drivers/*/unbind and bind is not
> exactly user-friendly.
> 
> Create an option to disable support for Prism devices in orinoco driver which
> disabled the IDs for the PCMCIA module and creates a Kconfig dependency for
> the Prism PCI modules.

I very much dislike this being a compile time only CONFIG option.  A
module parameter which enables or disables the device IDs would be
much nicer, if possible.  It can default to off (orinoco will not
claim Prism cards).

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-23  1:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-22 13:17 [PATCH 2.6.23 3/3] [wireless] orinoco: create a Kconfig option for Prism2 Faidon Liambotis
2007-07-22 17:14 ` Pavel Roskin
2007-07-23 22:07   ` Faidon Liambotis
2007-07-25  5:30     ` Pavel Roskin
2007-07-25  6:19       ` Faidon Liambotis
2007-07-25 16:32         ` Pavel Roskin
2007-08-01  3:33     ` Jouni Malinen
2007-08-01  5:55       ` Pavel Roskin
2007-07-23  1:42 ` David Gibson [this message]
2007-07-23  6:10   ` Pavel Roskin
2007-07-23  6:20     ` David Gibson

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