On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 11:24:39AM -0400, 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. I remember a patch that added all of Orinoco PCI IDs to HostAP. I'm not sure if you're referring to that, but that's pretty different (and obviously wrong).
> 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. I'd mostly agree to that if distributors had a way to enable/disable Prism2 support on the orinoco_cs driver based on a build-time configuration option. Should I prepare such a patch? FWIW, I think we've experienced a similar situation like this in the past in the networking land and the consensus was to completely remove the other driver. I'm referring to e100/eepro100, of course. Regards, Faidon - 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
