To: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, linville@tuxdriver.com,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: at76_usb driver status
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From: Kalle Valo <Kalle.Valo@iki.fi>
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:39:34 +0300
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Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> writes:

> I'm not going to scream, and I'm not sure my opinion really matters, but
> I don't think it's a good idea to have two different drivers under the
> same name in different kernel trees.
>
> My preference is that we give a better exposure to the mac80211 based
> driver, so that potential contributors don't spend time on dead end
> code.

I agree, it's very confusing. I'll change the name of the mac80211
port to something else, most probably to at76c50x-usb. Any comments?
Anyone?

> Finally, I would prefer that my name is not used with either driver.
> The original driver was written by other people.  I just cleaned it up
> and fixed some bugs.

Ok. After I rename the mac80211 port we don't have to use names of
persons anymore.

-- 
Kalle Valo