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Re: [PATCH 1/5] Net: ath5k, split hw into hw, phy and initvals

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On 8/28/07, Larry Finger <larry.finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 18:10 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >> On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 11:58:52AM -0400, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> >>> -ath5k-objs         = ath5k_base.o ath5k_hw.o ath5k_regdom.o
> >>> +ath5k-objs         = ath5k_base.o ath5k_hw.o ath5k_regdom.o \
> >>> +                     ath5k_hw_phy.o ath5k_hw_inivals.o
> >> And while I'm at nitpicking :)
> >>
> >> ath5k_hw_phy.o should probably be ath5k_phy.o by conventions used by
> >> most drivers and ath5k_hw_inivals.o mights aswell be something like
> >> ath5k_init.o
> >
> > While we're at names... I personally much prefer a new directory ath5k
> > and then ath5k/hw.c etc. but it seems I'm pretty alone in that. But here
> > we already have at least four files now.
>
> I agree with you. If a wireless driver takes more than one .c and one .h file, it belongs in its own
> directory, and the file names stripped of any driver prefix. Not only are the file names simpler,
> but Makefile and Kconfig in wireless benefits.

NACK, I don't agree with this patch. The ath5k_regdom.* files will be
gone soon anyway and don't see the reason to split the files even
more. Now iwlwifi... -- that could is own directory IMHO :)

  Luis
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