From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jesse Brandeburg" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc6] Remove Prism II support from Orinoco Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:10:57 -0700 Message-ID: <4807377b0606121710j5be6ce0fhac71b69bf4dce2c2@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060610175010.GA4617@divinity> <20060610180850.GP7420@redhat.com> <20060611222719.GA13139@redhat.com> <20060611224054.GB13139@redhat.com> <20060611224954.GA2880@divinity> <20060612152434.GA14851@tuxdriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Faidon Liambotis" , "Dave Jones" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, proski@gnu.org, hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au Return-path: Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.184]:50169 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932473AbWFMAK7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:10:59 -0400 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id x30so61343nfb for ; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:10:57 -0700 (PDT) To: "John W. Linville" In-Reply-To: <20060612152434.GA14851@tuxdriver.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 6/12/06, John W. Linville wrote: > On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 01:49:54AM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > > > Having two drivers supporting the same set of hardware seems pretty > > pointless to me. Plus, it confuses hotplugging/automatic detection. > > This subject comes-up from time to time. In fact, I'm pretty sure > it came-up very recently w.r.t. orinoco and hostap. > > The consensus seems to be that drivers should have IDs for all devices > they support, even if that means that some devices are supported by > multiple drivers. This leaves the choice of which driver to use in > the hands of the user and/or distro. 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. Jesse