On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 01:57:48PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 09:33 -0700, Ehud Gavron wrote: > > The driver should have a name that reflects its use and capabilities. > > Not necessarily. End users should be shielded from such details by > distributions. Do you know the name of the Windows driver for your > network card? Does it reflect "its use and capabilities"? > > Now, if we are talking about power users, who can occasionally recompile > the kernel or install a program not from the distribution, they would be > helped by reasonable names of the drivers. > > Also, distribution maintainers would feel better if the drivers are not > renamed, so that /etc/modprobe.d/ doesn't need to be scanned for the old > names on kernel upgrade. ACK...fwiw, I like the "b43" name suggestion. I wonder if that is too prone to confusion w/ "b44"? Probably no worse than "ixgb" vs "cxgb3" or "e100" vs "e1000" I suppose. John -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
