Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:03:24 -0800
From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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Subject: Re: State of the Union: Wireless
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On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:53:57 +0100, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 01:38:58PM +0100, Tim Tassonis wrote:
> >...
> > >We can always undo mistakes later, but 
> > >we'll never get to that point if we don't start moving in one direction 
> > >instead of ten.
> > 
> > You were right if there were ten, but there seem to be only two at the 
> > moment. One stack will survive and one will die. There's no point in 
> > deciding this now.
> 
> No, we'll end up with two stacks, some drivers using the first stack and 
> some the second one.
> 
> You can't simply let one stack die because this would imply either 
> rewriting all drivers using this stack or dropping support for some 
> hardware.

So, you don't want to remove OSS drivers anymore, I take it.
Can't let bad stacks die!

-- Pete
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