On Friday 20 July 2007 22:41, Larry Finger wrote: > 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. No, don't go the way to make the PCI table selectable by a Kconfig or even worse a dynamic module option. That is _really_ confusing and I really hope everyone upstream rejects such patches. Either a driver does support some hardware, or it doesn't. There is no step inbetween. If bcm43xx-mac80211 for G is not ready for merge, yet, don't strip the IDs from bcm43xx. If bcm43xx-mac80211 for G is ready for production, remove them. - 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
