From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:59381 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753028AbZHSSpM (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:45:12 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:35:06 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: Luis Rodriguez , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/33] wireless: kconfig updates Message-ID: <20090819183506.GG5905@tuxdriver.com> References: <1250530052-14783-1-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <20090819150138.GB5905@tuxdriver.com> <20090819180235.GA7126@mosca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20090819180235.GA7126@mosca> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:02:35AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 08:01:38AM -0700, John W. Linville wrote: > > I'm sorry, I know you've put some effort into this. A lot of it seems > > fine, even welcome. But I don't really see the point of grouping > > everything by manufacturer -- it just seems to add an extra level of > > organization for no particular reason...? > > Well at first I didn't really intend to group them by manufacturer really, > I just tried to get rid of clutter and wanted to group related drivers > together to make it easier to find for users. After a few iterations the > manufacturer grouping just happened naturally, and later it also just seemed > natural to remove the typical postfix "wireless device support" or the like. > > I welcome others to try to clean the stuff up some more in a different > way but I think you may end up with something very similar. Can we just drop the "INTEL_80211" and the like, keeping the comments and basic organization in the Kconfig files as you have them? John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.