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Re: [PATCH v5 00/33] wireless: kconfig updates

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On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:02:35AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 08:01:38AM -0700, John W. Linville wrote:

> > I'm sorry, I know you've put some effort into this.  A lot of it seems
> > fine, even welcome.  But I don't really see the point of grouping
> > everything by manufacturer -- it just seems to add an extra level of
> > organization for no particular reason...?
> 
> Well at first I didn't really intend to group them by manufacturer really,
> I just tried to get rid of clutter and wanted to group related drivers
> together to make it easier to find for users. After a few iterations the
> manufacturer grouping just happened naturally, and later it also just seemed
> natural to remove the typical postfix "wireless device support" or the like.
> 
> I welcome others to try to clean the stuff up some more in a different
> way but I think you may end up with something very similar.

Can we just drop the "INTEL_80211" and the like, keeping the comments
and basic organization in the Kconfig files as you have them?

John
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