Re: ipw3945 status

Matthew Garrett
2006-07-30T11:47:29Z

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.

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