From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Roskin Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:52:34 -0400 Message-ID: <1150347154.26487.30.camel@dv> References: <20060610175010.GA4617@divinity> <20060610180850.GP7420@redhat.com> <20060611222719.GA13139@redhat.com> <20060611224054.GB13139@redhat.com> <20060611224954.GA2880@divinity> <20060612152434.GA14851@tuxdriver.com> <4807377b0606121710j5be6ce0fhac71b69bf4dce2c2@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "John W. Linville" , Faidon Liambotis , Dave Jones , netdev@vger.kernel.org, hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au Return-path: Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]:30437 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750782AbWFOEwl (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:52:41 -0400 Received: from proski by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1FqjqR-0001wW-Ny for netdev@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:52:39 -0400 To: Jesse Brandeburg In-Reply-To: <4807377b0606121710j5be6ce0fhac71b69bf4dce2c2@mail.gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 17:10 -0700, Jesse Brandeburg wrote: > my problem is that for my prism 2 adapter both drivers are loaded at > which point neither of them works. I'm running FC5, and i have to > keep removing the orinoco*.ko files to keep them from loading, so I'm > all for this patch. I believe the right solution would be to do it in userspace. The kernel should not be making decisions which driver is _better_ for the device. I'm yet to see any serious arguments why the kernel should be doing it. As for non-working driver, this should be reported with sufficient details. I haven't seen any detailed reports of this problem. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin