John W. Linville wrote:
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.
Today's discussion was very useful for me - I picked up two suggestions that I have or will be putting into the code.
1. The drivers that use V3 firmware will get a default fwpostfix value of ".fw3". If the resulting name fails, it will fallback to a blank value for fwpostfix. Of course, if a value is supplied, it will override the default.
2. Any b-only driver will contain an alternate PCI ID table that can be selected by using the appropriate module option (not yet named). If that option is selected, the driver will load a combined b/g table of ID's. This way, it will be easy to supply a work-around for any user that cannot get the default 802.11g driver to work. In addition, this fix will not require mucking with rc.local.
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