Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758316AbXLOWAb (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Dec 2007 17:00:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752677AbXLOWAX (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Dec 2007 17:00:23 -0500 Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:3545 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751867AbXLOWAW (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Dec 2007 17:00:22 -0500 Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:43:00 -0500 From: "John W. Linville" To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Michael Buesch , Daniel Walker , akpm@linux-foundation.org, stefano.brivio@polimi.it, Ray Lee , matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mbuesch@freenet.de, linux@bohmer.net, kjwinchester@gmail.com, jonathan@jonmasters.org, Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex Message-ID: <20071215214300.GC3096@tuxdriver.com> References: <20071213003028.676998182@mvista.com> <20071214175910.GA27078@elte.hu> <200712141938.10733.mb@bu3sch.de> <200712150225.52183.rjw@sisk.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200712150225.52183.rjw@sisk.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1113 Lines: 27 On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 02:25:50AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Friday, 14 of December 2007, Michael Buesch wrote: > > Either distributions have to install it automatically or people simply have > > to read one or two lines of documentation. That's just what I wanted to say. > > It's not that simple. For example, regression testing will be a major PITA > if one needs to switch back and forth from the new driver to the old one in the > process. Not really true -- a single system can easily have firmware installed for b43, b43legacy, and bcm43xx at the same time and switch back and forth between them. Given a functioning udev configuration, the persistent naming even works so that your device stays as 'eth1' when switching to and fro bcm43xx. I really think everyone is overstating the problem. John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/