On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:15 PM, drago01 <drago01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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What about using "iwl" or "iwl80211" as the new name? IMO "iwl" is not
too short, given that it is the same length as "b43".
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