On Tuesday 20 October 2009, Holger Schurig wrote: > > I don't agree on this, for starters the whole "abstraction > > layer as done in the staging driver, really obfuscated the code > > in multiple areas > > Ivo, you could look at Orinoco or Libertas. Both WLAN drivers > support a multitude of different hardware (Libertas: CF/PCMCIA, > SDIO, SD, USB and Orinoco: CF/PCMCIA, PCI, PPC_PMAC). And both > have hardware abstraction layers that don't suck, obfuscate or > create lots of duplicate code. Thanks, > So AFAIK it's not the question *IF* to do hardware abstraction > but only a question *HOW* to do it in an intelligent way. Don't > luck at one bad implementation and disregard the whole > concept :-) Oh I completely agree, I am not against the extra abstraction layer, but I do want a nice looking solution. :) I'll take a look at the Orinoco approach. Thanks, Ivo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
