From: Kalle Valo <Kalle.Valo@iki.fi>
To: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
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 08:39:34 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vdw6mgdl.fsf@litku.valot.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1223270894.18180.7.camel@dv> (Pavel Roskin's message of "Mon\, 06 Oct 2008 01\:28\:14 -0400")
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?
> Finally, I would prefer that my name is not used with either driver.
> The original driver was written by other people. I just cleaned it up
> and fixed some bugs.
Ok. After I rename the mac80211 port we don't have to use names of
persons anymore.
--
Kalle Valo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-06 5:39 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 [this message]
2008-10-06 5:42 ` Pavel Roskin
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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