On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
<lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:32:53AM -0800, drago01 wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Hi John,
>> >
>> > Here is the first batch for the iwl3945 -> iwlagn merge. This is for
>> > post .29 kernel.
>>
>> Well it doesn't really matter but wouldn't it make sense to rename the
>> driver back to iwlwifi ? (as 3945 does not support n mode)
>
> That would make compat-crap stuff difficult, at least I cannot think of an
> easy way to deal with it. See scripts/iwl-load, part of compat-wireless. This
> is used to simply rename iwl4965 to iwl4965.ignore and let iwlagn kick in
> if you are on an older kernel.
MODULE_ALIAS("iwlagn")
> If we move iwlagn to iwlwifi... umm.. wait did
> we ever have an "iwlwifi" driver?
yes that was the original name of the driver before it was split into
iwl3945 and iwl4965 (if I remember correctly iwlwifi was 3945 only
and the split happend when 4965 support was added).
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