Re: State of the Union: Wireless

[Tim Tassonis <timtas@cubic.ch>]

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 01:38:58PM +0100, Tim Tassonis wrote:
>> ...
>>> We can always undo mistakes later, but 
>>> we'll never get to that point if we don't start moving in one direction 
>>> instead of ten.
>> You were right if there were ten, but there seem to be only two at the 
>> moment. One stack will survive and one will die. There's no point in 
>> deciding this now.
> 
> No, we'll end up with two stacks, some drivers using the first stack and 
> some the second one.
> 
> You can't simply let one stack die because this would imply either 
> rewriting all drivers using this stack or dropping support for some 
> hardware.

By "die", I didn't mean "delete it from kernel sources".

It is very probable that over time, the "winning" stack will contain 
most drivers for the most common hardware, and the "losing" one just a 
few obscure ones. The "losing" one will still be available for people 
using hardware only supported by that stack.

Like the OSS/Alsa or XFree3.x/XFree4.x situations.

Tim