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Re: [PATCH V2] Add iwlwifi wireless drivers

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On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 15:25 +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:

> I know the method is not common used in the Linux drivers, but this is
> decided by the hardware layout. For 3945 and 4965, 90% of the
> hardware/firmware layout are the same and only 10% are different. This
> makes it possible to support two slightly differs hardwares in one
> driver. If the hardwares differ a lot (i.e 2100 and 2200), I won't even
> think about to do it in this way.

To be fair, that's not what you do, you're building two drivers from one
source rather than have a single driver that supports both. I'm fairly
certain Christoph wouldn't object to the latter.

johannes

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