From: Kasper Sandberg <lkml@metanurb.dk>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Jan Dittmer <jdi@l4x.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
Jirka Lenost Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
ipw2100-admin@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: ipw3945 status
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 15:01:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1154264478.13635.22.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060730114722.GA26046@srcf.ucam.org>
On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 12:47 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 01:34:19PM +0200, Jan Dittmer wrote:
>
> > Why not get rid of the daemon like bsd did [0]? Otherwise in
> > 5 years you'll have 42 daemons running which communicate with
> > the firmware of various devices, each having a different inter-
> > face.
>
> Because it would involve a moderate rewriting of the driver, and we'd
> have to carry a delta against Intel's code forever.
without knowing this for sure, dont you think that if a largely changed
version of the driver appeared in the tree, intel may start developing
on that? cause then they wouldnt be the ones that "broke" compliance
with FCC(hah) by not doing binaryonly.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-30 13:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-30 10:40 ipw3945 status Pavel Machek
2006-07-30 11:28 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-07-30 11:30 ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-30 11:34 ` Jan Dittmer
2006-07-30 11:47 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-07-30 13:01 ` Kasper Sandberg [this message]
2006-07-30 14:53 ` Theodore Tso
2006-07-30 15:00 ` Kasper Sandberg
2006-07-30 15:09 ` Theodore Tso
2006-07-30 16:09 ` Kasper Sandberg
2006-07-30 16:25 ` Jan Dittmer
2006-07-30 16:32 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-07-30 17:52 ` Alan Cox
2006-07-30 23:12 ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-31 0:23 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-07-31 1:16 ` Kasper Sandberg
2006-07-31 6:06 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-07-31 8:32 ` Kasper Sandberg
2006-07-30 16:58 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2006-07-30 17:25 ` Kasper Sandberg
2006-07-30 17:37 ` Rene Rebe
2006-07-30 18:03 ` Kasper Sandberg
2006-07-30 20:09 ` Rene Rebe
2006-07-30 21:02 ` Kasper Sandberg
2006-07-30 23:44 ` Alan Cox
2006-07-31 0:19 ` Kasper Sandberg
2006-07-31 7:11 ` Rene Rebe
2006-07-30 15:57 ` Tomasz Torcz
2006-07-30 16:01 ` Matthew Garrett
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