From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932275AbWG3Lr3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 07:47:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932282AbWG3Lr3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 07:47:29 -0400 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([217.147.92.49]:51179 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932275AbWG3Lr3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 07:47:29 -0400 Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 12:47:22 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett To: Jan Dittmer Cc: Pavel Machek , Jirka Lenost Benc , kernel list , ipw2100-admin@linux.intel.com Subject: Re: ipw3945 status Message-ID: <20060730114722.GA26046@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20060730104042.GE1920@elf.ucw.cz> <20060730112827.GA25540@srcf.ucam.org> <44CC993B.6070309@l4x.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44CC993B.6070309@l4x.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@codon.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on vavatch.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org