Subject: Re: at76_usb driver status
From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: Kalle Valo <Kalle.Valo@iki.fi>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, linville@tuxdriver.com,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:42:17 -0400
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On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 08:39 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> 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?

I'd rather avoid the old driver completely.  But if we want to resurrect
it, its name was "at76c503a".

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin