From: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtl818x: move rtl8180 and rtl8187 to separate subdirectories
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:29:48 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101221112948.1aeeb444@gotham.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D0FF4DC.4010409@lwfinger.net>
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:29:16 -0600
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
> On 12/20/2010 02:22 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
> > These drivers share one header file, but nothing else. Worse, both
> > drivers use the rtl8225 part with different register settings. The
> > results has been some ugly naming -- let's simplify that.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
> > ---
>
> This is a good time to change this as I have heard from Realtek that their
> RTL8187SE driver that uses mac80211 is running, but not yet stable. When it is,
> a decision can be made if it should be in .../rtl818x/rtl8187/ or
> .../rtl818x/rtl8187se/.
>
> The new driver will also allow the staging driver to be removed.
Ack from me too, it stays cleaner with the change.
>
> Larry
>
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-20 20:22 [PATCH] rtl818x: move rtl8180 and rtl8187 to separate subdirectories John W. Linville
2010-12-21 0:29 ` Larry Finger
2010-12-21 13:29 ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski [this message]
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2010-12-20 20:25 John W. Linville
2010-12-20 21:34 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2010-12-20 22:22 ` Larry Finger
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