Hello, I wrote:
Can you answer the simple question: why we should try to support
two incompatible chips with a single driver? Because the driver name
will be shorter? :-)
Very funny. I think patch adding RM9200 support to this driver will
have less
than 50 lines changeset, whereas writing new driver would be about
500 lines.
This approach is so broken-minded that I'm just out words to argue
any more.
Let's then support say all the PCI IDE chipsets with the single
driver (actully, there was a driver that tried to support 2
incompatible Promise chip families but it got split finally).
To say the truth, there are stil at least 2 examples of such drivers:
hpt366 and aec6210. While the former is justified by the bogus chip
identification poilicy used by the vendor, the latter has no
justification at all.
MBR, Sergei
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