From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Faidon Liambotis Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:15:10 +0300 Message-ID: <4490ECDE.2030600@cube.gr> References: <20060610175010.GA4617@divinity> <20060610180850.GP7420@redhat.com> <20060611222719.GA13139@redhat.com> <20060611224054.GB13139@redhat.com> <20060611224954.GA2880@divinity> <20060612152434.GA14851@tuxdriver.com> <1150346713.26487.24.camel@dv> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "John W. Linville" , Dave Jones , netdev@vger.kernel.org, hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au Return-path: Received: from mail5-static.acn.gr ([213.5.41.24]:8072 "EHLO mail5-static.acn.gr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932443AbWFOGFA (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jun 2006 02:05:00 -0400 Received: from mailslb.acn.gr (unknown [172.31.10.109]) by mail5-static.acn.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 302A84B3FF4 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:14:44 +0300 (EEST) To: Pavel Roskin In-Reply-To: <1150346713.26487.24.camel@dv> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hi, Pavel Roskin wrote: > The patch in question was never submitted to the orinoco mailing list. > I believe any such changes should be discussed by people using the > driver and participating in its development. It's not some minor change > or API update. I'm sorry for not submitting/CCing this to the orinoco mailing list, I should have. > I'm ready to consider disabling some ID's conditionally, primarily for > systems that cannot use udev. But it's far from the top of my TODO > list. And I'm not sure it would actually help users of desktop > distributions. Well, that would be very nice, thanks! But do you think that it will be enough? I mean, orinoco_{pci,plx,tdm} exist only to support Prism2 chipsets. HostAP a rather big and complete driver for Prism2/2.5/3.0 chipsets; we're going to have another one based on the dscape stack too. Do you think that there's a point on having the orinoco driver supporting this chipset any more? I don't mean to disrespect your work -- orinoco has served us for quite a few years, but HostAP seems like a better alternative for these cards. Please don't get offended by this -- I'm sure you've spent quite some time on the particular code. Regarding the disabling of IDs, I could prepare a patch for orinoco_cs that would disable Prism2 support via a configuration option. Would that be helpful/acceptable? Best regards, Faidon