On Tuesday 17 January 2006 12:37, Jirka Bohac wrote: > At the present time, the ieee80211 stack is used by ipw2x00 > (heavily) and hostap (a little bit). Other mainline drivers only use > headers (mainly constants). > > If it shows that the DeviceScape stack is more mature and > appropriate (which I think it is), I don't see anything wrong > with having both in the kernel at one time time. > > - DeviceScape can be there so it can be polished and new drivers can > start using it. > - ieee80211 could be there with a big fat warning that it will go > away soon, just to allow ipw2x00 to work while DeviceScape and > the ipw2x00 port for it to be stabilized. > > Isnt't this a viable option?
It would not bother me as much to have two stacks in the kernel if the current stack were immediately marked as deprecated and a concrete schedule for its complete removal were established. I mainly object to the idea the idea that both stacks should be given full-class citizenry to allow 'natural evolution' to choose the best one. Cheers, Chase - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
